Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 81
When he had done this, the knights who were disposed upon the mountains came up, being led by Guy of Burgundy, and, finding the gates open, entered in and slew all that they could find.
Who acts: Herneger, knights, Guy, gates, finding · What happens: do, dispose, come up, lead, find, open · To what, where: this, knights, all · 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, knights, Guy, gates), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 came | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 knights | det |
| 8 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 disposed | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 disposed | aux:pass |
| 11 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 knights | acl:relcl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 mountains | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountains | det |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 disposed | obl |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 led | punct |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 led | aux:pass |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 came | advcl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Guy | case |
| 21 | Guy | Guy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 led | obl:agent |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Burgundy | case |
| 23 | Burgundy | Burgundy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Guy | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 entered | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 entered | cc |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 finding | punct |
| 27 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 entered | csubj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 gates | det |
| 29 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 open | nsubj |
| 30 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 finding | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 open | punct |
| 32 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADV | _ | 32 entered | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 slew | cc |
| 35 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 entered | conj |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 slew | obl |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 find | mark |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 find | nsubj |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 find | aux |
| 40 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 all | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | Herneger | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | dispose | past · passive | the knights | upon the mountains | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come up | past | the knights | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lead | gerund · passive | Guy of Burgundy | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 5 | find | gerund | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | open | present | the gates | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | enter | past | finding | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | slay | past | finding not said here | all | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | find | could | knights = knight | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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