Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 10
When he heard that it was the castle of the sons of Aymon, he was very wroth, and sent an embassy, of which Ogier the Dane was the leader, to King John, demanding that the brothers and their company should be delivered to him. "
Who acts: admiring, castle, embassy · What happens: hear, be, send, demand, deliver · To what, where: castle, embassy, leader, brothers, admiring · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (admiring, castle, embassy), 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 | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wroth | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 castle | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 castle | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 castle | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sons | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sons | det |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 castle | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Aymon | case |
| 13 | Aymon | Aymon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sons | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wroth | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wroth | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 wroth | advmod |
| 18 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sent | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sent | cc |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wroth | conj |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 embassy | det |
| 23 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 leader | punct |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 leader | nsubj |
| 27 | Ogier | Ogier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 leader | nsubj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Dane | det |
| 29 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Ogier | appos |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 leader | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 leader | det |
| 32 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 embassy | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 John | punct |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 John | case |
| 35 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 John | nmod:desc |
| 36 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 leader | appos |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 demanding | punct |
| 38 | demanding | demand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sent | advcl |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 delivered | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 brothers | det |
| 41 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 company | cc |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 company | nmod:poss |
| 44 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 brothers | conj |
| 45 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 delivered | aux |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 delivered | aux:pass |
| 47 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 demanding | ccomp |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 him | case |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 delivered | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 wroth | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 wroth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | admiring | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | castle | the castle | of the sons of Aymon | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | admiring | wroth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | send | past | admiring not said here | a embassy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embassy=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | a embassy | the leader | Ogier nsubj; John King appos | tree rules | |||
| 6 | demand speech: request | gerund | admiring not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 7 | deliver | should · passive | the brothers and brothers's company | admiring | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination |
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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