Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 14
Therefore he besieged the place meaning to reduce it by famine, for he perceived that it could not be taken by force.
Who acts: King, force · What happens: besiege, mean, reduce, perceive, not take · To what, where: place, it
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 (King, force), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 besieged | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 besieged | nsubj |
| 3 | besieged | besiege | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 besieged | obj |
| 6 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 besieged | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 reduce | mark |
| 8 | reduce | reduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 meaning | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reduce | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 famine | case |
| 11 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reduce | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 perceived | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 perceived | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 perceived | nsubj |
| 15 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 besieged | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 taken | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 taken | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 taken | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 taken | aux:pass |
| 21 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 perceived | ccomp |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 force | case |
| 23 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taken | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 besieged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | besiege | past | King | the place | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | gerund | King not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | reduce not said to happen | to-infinitive | King not said here | place | by famine | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Patient | |||
| 4 | perceive | past | King | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not take | could · passive | force | it | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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