Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 14
When the Council was assembled, the King stood up, and set the matter before them.
Who acts: King · What happens: assemble, stand up, set · To what, where: Council, matter
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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 assembled | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Council | det |
| 3 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 assembled | aux:pass |
| 5 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 stood | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 assembled | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 stood | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stood | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 matter | det |
| 15 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obj |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 set | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past · passive | the Council | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand up | past | the King | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | the King not said here | the matter | before barons = baron | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent matter=Theme before they=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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