Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 1
When King John of Gascony heard all the trouble that had befallen the brethren, on the one side, and the Emperor and his knights, on the other, he could not rest, so much did his conscience trouble him.
Who acts: John, trouble · What happens: hear, befall, not rest, do, trouble · To what, where: trouble, brethren, one side, conscience trouble
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, trouble), 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 | 6 heard | advmod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 John | nmod:desc |
| 3 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Gascony | case |
| 5 | Gascony | Gascony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 John | nmod |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 rest | advcl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 trouble | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trouble | det |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 befallen | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 befallen | aux |
| 12 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 trouble | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 brethren | det |
| 14 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 befallen | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 side | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 side | det |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 side | nummod |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 befallen | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Emperor | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Emperor | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Emperor | det |
| 23 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 knights | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 knights | nmod:poss |
| 26 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Emperor | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 other | punct |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 other | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 other | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heard | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 rest | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 rest | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 rest | advmod |
| 35 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 did | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 much | advmod |
| 38 | much | much | ADV | _ | 39 did | advmod |
| 39 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 rest | advcl |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 41 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 trouble | compound |
| 42 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 did | obj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 trouble | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | John King of Gascony | all trouble | the Emperor and John's knights obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer trouble=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | befall | past · perfect | all trouble | the brethren | the one side | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not rest | could | John | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | past | John not said here | John's conscience trouble John | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | trouble | John | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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