Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 49
Then the King set guards at each of the three gates of the castle, and the commander of the guards at the third gate was the Duke Aymon himself, for, of his loyalty to the King, he made war against his own sons.
Who acts: King, commander · What happens: set, be, make · To what, where: guards, each, Duke Aymon, war
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, commander), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 set | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gates | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gates | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 gates | nummod |
| 11 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 each | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gates | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 commander | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 commander | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 commander | det |
| 18 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Aymon | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 guards | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 guards | det |
| 21 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 commander | nmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 gate | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gate | det |
| 24 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 gate | amod |
| 25 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 guards | nmod |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Aymon | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Aymon | det |
| 28 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Aymon | compound |
| 29 | Aymon | Aymon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 29 Aymon | nmod:unmarked |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 loyalty | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 loyalty | case |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 loyalty | punct |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 loyalty | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 loyalty | nmod:poss |
| 36 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Aymon | appos |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 King | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 King | det |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 loyalty | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 made | punct |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 made | nsubj |
| 42 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 43 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 made | obj |
| 44 | against | against | ADP | _ | 47 sons | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 sons | nmod:poss |
| 46 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 sons | amod |
| 47 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 made | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the King | guards | each of the three gates of the castle | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guard=Theme at each=Destination | ||
| 2 | is a | past | the commander of the guards at the third gate | the Duke Aymon | King nmod:unmarked; King's loyalty to the King appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | past | King | war | against King's own sons | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Product |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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