Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 56
When Reynaud heard these tidings he was greatly troubled, and would have given himself up to King Charles, if he might so deliver his brother.
Who acts: Reynaud · What happens: hear, be, give up, deliver · To what, where: tidings, Reynaud, Charles, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 tidings | det |
| 5 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 troubled | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 troubled | cop |
| 8 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 9 troubled | advmod |
| 9 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 given | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 given | cc |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 given | aux |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 troubled | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 given | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 given | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Charles | case |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 deliver | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 deliver | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 deliver | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 deliver | aux |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 deliver | advmod |
| 25 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 brother | nmod:poss |
| 27 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deliver | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Reynaud | this tidings | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Reynaud | greatly, troubled property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give up | would · perfect | Reynaud not said here | Reynaud | Charles King | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to charles=Recipient | |||
| 4 | deliver | might | Reynaud | Reynaud's brother | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=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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