Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 129

Then Reynaud took the bodies of Ripus and fifteen of his knights that lay dead upon the plain and hanged them on the gallows that had been set up for Richard.

Who acts: Reynaud, knights · What happens: take, lay, hange, set up · To what, where: bodies, plain, gallows

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 (Reynaud, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bodies	det
5	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Ripus	case
7	Ripus	Ripus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bodies	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fifteen	cc
9	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 took	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 knights	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 knights	nmod:poss
12	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fifteen	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lay	nsubj
14	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 knights	acl:relcl
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lay	xcomp
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 plain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 plain	det
18	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lay	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hanged	cc
20	hanged	hange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hanged	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 gallows	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gallows	det
24	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hanged	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 set	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 set	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 set	aux:pass
28	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 gallows	acl:relcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 set	compound:prt
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 Richard	case
31	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 set	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Reynaud	the bodies of Ripus		then	fifteen of Reynaud's knights obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
2	lay	present	Reynaud's knights		the plain		dead property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon plain=Destination
3	hange	past	Reynaud not said here	bodies = body	the gallows			tree rules
4	set up	past · perfect · passive		the gallows			for Richard	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for richard=Beneficiary

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 Craft of Mawgis, sentence 129