Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 55
So the trumpet was sounded, and Reynaud and his men issued from the castle gate, and the King's men on the other hand made themselves ready for the fight, and there was a very terrible battle.
Who acts: Reynaud, men, terrible battle · What happens: sound, issue, make, be · To what, where: trumpet, castle gate, men
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 (Reynaud, men, terrible battle), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 sounded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trumpet | det |
| 3 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sounded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sounded | aux:pass |
| 5 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 issued | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 issued | cc |
| 8 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 issued | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 men | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 men | nmod:poss |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Reynaud | conj |
| 12 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sounded | parataxis |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 gate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gate | det |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gate | compound |
| 16 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 issued | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 men | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 King | case |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 made | nsubj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hand | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hand | amod |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 men | nmod |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 issued | conj |
| 28 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 made | obj |
| 29 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 made | xcomp |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 fight | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fight | det |
| 32 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ready | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 was | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 was | cc |
| 35 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 36 was | expl |
| 36 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sounded | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 battle | det |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 terrible | advmod |
| 39 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 battle | amod |
| 40 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 was | nsubj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past · passive | the trumpet | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | issue | past | Reynaud and Reynaud's men | the castle gate | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the King's men on the other hand | men = man | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Product | |||
| 4 | be | past | a terrible battle | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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