Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 81
For when he opened his eyes, having before been in a swoon, and saw Reynaud, he said to him, "See you that rock yonder that is so high and strong?
Who acts: brethren · What happens: open, have, be, see, say · To what, where: eyes, 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 (brethren), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 opened | mark |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 opened | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 having | punct |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 opened | advcl |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 swoon | case |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 swoon | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 swoon | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 swoon | det |
| 13 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 having | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 17 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 See | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 See | punct |
| 25 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 See | obj |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 rock | det |
| 28 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 See | obj |
| 29 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 25 See | advmod |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 See | obj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 high | cop |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 high | advmod |
| 33 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | ccomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 strong | cc |
| 35 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 high | conj |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | brethren | brethren's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | brethren not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | participle | before a swoon | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | past | brethren not said here | Reynaud | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reynaud=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | say speech: ask | past | brethren | Reynaud | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | see in a quote | infinitive | brethren not said here | Reynaud | that rock obj; that obj; yonder property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | high property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | be in a quote | tree rules |
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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