Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 22
Roland has taken him prisoner, and is stedfastly purposed to hang him.
What happens: take, purpose, hang · To what, where: Roland, Reynaud
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: 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 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 taken | obj |
| 5 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | compound |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 purposed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 purposed | cc |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 purposed | aux:pass |
| 9 | stedfastly | stedfastly | ADV | _ | 10 purposed | advmod |
| 10 | purposed | purpose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 taken | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hang | mark |
| 12 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 purposed | xcomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hang | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · perfect · passive | Roland | Reynaud obj; prisoner compound | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | purpose speech: other | present · passive | stedfastly property | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hang | to-infinitive | Reynaud | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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