Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 126
And when Mawgis and the brothers, that is to say, Alard and Guichard, for Richard was too sorely wounded, saw this, they made all haste to come.
Who acts: that, Richard, hands · What happens: be, see, make, come · To what, where: this, haste
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Richard, hands), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 when | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 when | appos |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 brothers | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brothers | det |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Mawgis | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 say | nsubj:outer |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | cop |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Mawgis | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Alard | punct |
| 13 | Alard | Alard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 say | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Guichard | cc |
| 15 | Guichard | Guichard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Alard | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wounded | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 wounded | mark |
| 18 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 wounded | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wounded | cop |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 sorely | advmod |
| 21 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 22 wounded | advmod |
| 22 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 say | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wounded | conj |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 saw | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | nsubj |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 saw | conj |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 haste | det |
| 30 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 come | mark |
| 32 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 haste | acl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 when | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | Alard and Guichard obj; say property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Richard | sorely, wounded property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Richard not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | make | past | hands = hand | all haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 5 | come | to-infinitive | hands = hand not said here | all haste not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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