Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 75

When the brethren found that a great treachery had been practised upon them, they prepared to defend themselves, having first confessed their sins to each other, for lack of a priest to whom they might confess.

Who acts: brethren, knights · What happens: find, practise, prepare, defend, have, confess · To what, where: great treachery, knights, sins, each, priest · 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 (brethren, knights), 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	4 found	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brethren	det
3	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 prepared	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 practised	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 treachery	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 treachery	amod
8	treachery	treachery	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 practised	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 practised	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 practised	aux:pass
11	practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 found	ccomp
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 practised	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 prepared	nsubj
16	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 defend	mark
18	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 prepared	xcomp
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 defend	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 having	punct
21	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 defend	advcl
22	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 confessed	advmod
23	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 having	ccomp
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sins	nmod:poss
25	sins	sin	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 confessed	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 each	case
27	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	23 confessed	obl
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 each	fixed
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lack	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 lack	case
31	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 confessed	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 priest	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 priest	det
34	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lack	nmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 whom	case
36	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 priest	nmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 confess	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 confess	aux
39	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 whom	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	the brethren				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	practise	past · perfect · passive		a great treachery		upon knights = knight	tree rules
3	prepare	past	knights = knight				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
4	defend not said to happen	to-infinitive	knights = knight not said here	knights = knight			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary
5	have	gerund	knights = knight not said here				tree rules
6	confess	past	knights = knight not said here	knights's sins	each	for lack of a priest to lack of a priest to lack; first property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sin=Topic to each=Recipient
7	confess	might	knights = knight				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
8	lack			a priest to lack of a priest to lack of a priest			nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient

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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 75