Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 67
Then Herneger, after he had first disposed a thousand knights in the mountains round about, rode up to the castle gates and said, "I pray you to let me enter, for the King seeks my life.
Who acts: Herneger, King · What happens: dispose, ride up, say, pray, let, enter · To what, where: thousand knights, mountains, castle gates, you, Herneger, life · 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 (Herneger, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Herneger | advmod |
| 2 | Herneger | Herneger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Herneger | punct |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 disposed | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 disposed | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 disposed | aux |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 disposed | advmod |
| 8 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Herneger | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thousand | det |
| 10 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 knights | nummod |
| 11 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 disposed | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 mountains | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountains | det |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 disposed | obl |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 about | advmod |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 disposed | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Herneger | punct |
| 18 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 rode | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 gates | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gates | det |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gates | compound |
| 23 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rode | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 rode | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 pray | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 pray | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 pray | nsubj |
| 29 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | ccomp |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 pray | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 let | mark |
| 32 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 pray | advcl |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 let | obj |
| 34 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 let | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 seeks | punct |
| 36 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 39 seeks | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 King | det |
| 38 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 seeks | nsubj |
| 39 | seeks | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 enter | advcl |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 life | nmod:poss |
| 41 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 seeks | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dispose | past · perfect | Herneger | thousand knights | the mountains | about, first property | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent knight=Patient | ||
| 2 | ride up | past | Herneger | the castle gates | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to gate=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Herneger not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pray in a quote | present | Herneger | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | let in a quote | to-infinitive | Herneger not said here | Herneger | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | enter in a quote | infinitive | Herneger not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | seek in a quote | present | the King | my life | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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