Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 52
And when the men heard him so speak, they judged that he was a very gallant, noble knight.
Who acts: men, King · What happens: hear, speak, judge, be · To what, where: King, gallant noble knight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (men, King), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 judged | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 judged | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 speak | advmod |
| 8 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 heard | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 judged | nsubj |
| 11 | judged | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 knight | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 knight | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 knight | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 knight | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 gallant | advmod |
| 17 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 knight | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gallant | punct |
| 19 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 knight | amod |
| 20 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 judged | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 judged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the men | King | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive | King not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | judge | past | men = man | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | King | a gallant noble knight | tree rules |
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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