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" **Who acts:** admiring, castle, embassy · **What happens:** hear, be, send, demand, deliver · **To what, where:** castle, embassy, leader, brothers, admiring · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (admiring, castle, embassy), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:6:10 # text = When he heard that it was the castle of the sons of Aymon, he was very wroth, and sent an embassy, of which Ogier the Dane was the leader, to King John, demanding that the brothers and their company should be delivered to him. " 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Aymon Aymon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 wroth wroth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 embassy embassy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 27 Ogier Ogier PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Dane Dane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:desc _ _ 36 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 demanding demand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 45 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 46 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 delivered deliver VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 ccomp _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | admiring | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | past | castle | the castle | | | | of the sons of Aymon | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | admiring | | | | | wroth *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **send** | past | admiring *not said here* | a embassy | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embassy=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | a embassy | the leader | | | | Ogier *nsubj*; John King *appos* | tree rules | | 6 | **demand** *speech: request* | gerund | admiring *not said here* | | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 7 | **deliver** | should · passive | | the brothers and brothers's company | admiring | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/11/) - ↑ back to [The Coming of Roland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/)