Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 61
For the King, having gathered together a great multitude of men, surrounded the castle on all sides, and kept it close for a year and more.
Who acts: men · What happens: gather, surround, keep · To what, where: great multitude, castle, sides
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), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 King | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gathered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 5 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 gathered | aux |
| 6 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 gathered | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 multitude | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 multitude | amod |
| 10 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gathered | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 multitude | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 surrounded | punct |
| 14 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 men | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 surrounded | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 sides | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 sides | det |
| 19 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 castle | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kept | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kept | cc |
| 22 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gathered | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kept | obj |
| 24 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 kept | xcomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 year | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 year | det |
| 27 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 close | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 more | cc |
| 29 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 kept | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | gerund · perfect | a great multitude of men | for the King; together property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent multitude=Theme for king=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | surround | participle | men not said here | the castle | all sides | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | keep | past | castle | close property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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