Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 30

Now it chanced that a yeoman of Gascony, being in Paris, heard the proclamation, and going back to his own country told the matter to Reynaud and Mawgis.

Who acts: proclamation, yeoman, going · What happens: chance, be, hear, go back, tell · To what, where: Paris, proclamation, matter · 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 (proclamation, yeoman, going), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 chanced	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chanced	nsubj
3	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 heard	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 yeoman	det
6	yeoman	yeoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Gascony	case
8	Gascony	Gascony	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 yeoman	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Paris	punct
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 Paris	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Paris	case
12	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 yeoman	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 yeoman	punct
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chanced	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 proclamation	det
16	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
19	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 told	csubj
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 going	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 country	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 country	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 country	amod
24	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 going	obl
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chanced	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 matter	det
27	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	iobj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 Reynaud	case
29	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 told	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Mawgis	cc
31	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Reynaud	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chance	past	proclamation				now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	gerund				Paris			tree rules
3	hear	past	a yeoman of Gascony	the proclamation					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer proclamation=Stimulus
4	go back	gerund						to yeoman's own country result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result
5	tell speech: assert	past	going		the matter			to Reynaud and Mawgis	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent matter=Topic to reynaud=Recipient

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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 30