Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 52
When they came to Paris some ill fellow saw them, and cried in a loud voice, "This is Reynaud, son of Aymon," at which saying many ran together.
Who acts: Reynaud, ill fellow, This, many · What happens: come, see, cry, be, say, run · To what, where: Paris, Reynaud, loud voice · 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 (Reynaud, ill fellow, This, many), 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 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Paris | case |
| 5 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 fellow | det |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fellow | amod |
| 8 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 voice | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 16 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | amod |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Reynaud | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Reynaud | punct |
| 20 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 Reynaud | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 Reynaud | cop |
| 22 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 son | punct |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Reynaud | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Aymon | case |
| 26 | Aymon | Aymon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 son | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 saying | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 saying | punct |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 saying | obl |
| 31 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 cried | advcl |
| 32 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 ran | nsubj |
| 33 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 saying | ccomp |
| 34 | together | together | ADV | _ | 33 ran | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Reynaud | Paris | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to paris=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | some ill fellow | Reynaud | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | some ill fellow not said here | a loud voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | This | Reynaud | son of Aymon appos | tree rules | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | some ill fellow not said here | which obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | run | past | many | together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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