Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 77
First Guichard was taken prisoner by the King's men and bound upon a horse.
Who acts: men · What happens: take, bind · To what, where: Guichard
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 (men), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 taken | advmod |
| 2 | Guichard | Guichard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | xcomp |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 men | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taken | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bound | cc |
| 12 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taken | conj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bound | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the King's men | Guichard | prisoner xcomp; first property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination | |||
| 2 | bind | participle | the King's men not said here | upon a horse | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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