Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 56
Not long after the brethren came back to the castle, and when they heard that the King was there, they took each his horn and sounded a welcome.
Who acts: knights, King · What happens: come back, hear, be, take, sound · To what, where: castle, horn, welcome
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 (knights, King), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 brethren | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brethren | det |
| 5 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heard | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 heard | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 there | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 there | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 there | cop |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 heard | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 took | nsubj |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 horn | det |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 horn | nmod:poss |
| 26 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sounded | cc |
| 28 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 took | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 welcome | det |
| 30 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sounded | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the castle | after the brethren | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hear | past | knights = knight | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the King | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | past | knights = knight | King's horn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sound | past | knights = knight not said here | a welcome | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location welcome=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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