Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 17
This was seen by a certain spy, who told it to Reynaud and Mawgis.
Who acts: certain spy · What happens: see, tell · To what, where: This, spy, Reynaud · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (certain spy), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux:pass |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 spy | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spy | det |
| 6 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spy | amod |
| 7 | spy | spy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spy | acl:relcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Reynaud | case |
| 13 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Mawgis | cc |
| 15 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Reynaud | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | a certain spy | This | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | a certain spy | spy | Reynaud and Mawgis | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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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