Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 17
Then the romance writers were Frenchmen, and they make the great king a Frenchman, holding his court in Paris, and surrounded by great French lords.
Who acts: romance writers, Frenchmen · What happens: be, make, hold, surround · To what, where: Frenchmen, great king, court, Paris
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (romance writers, Frenchmen), 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 | 6 Frenchmen | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 writers | det |
| 3 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 writers | compound |
| 4 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Frenchmen | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Frenchmen | cop |
| 6 | Frenchmen | frenchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 king | amod |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Frenchman | det |
| 15 | Frenchman | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 king | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 holding | punct |
| 17 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 make | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 court | nmod:poss |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 holding | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Paris | case |
| 21 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 holding | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 surrounded | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 surrounded | cc |
| 24 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 make | parataxis |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 lords | case |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lords | amod |
| 27 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lords | amod |
| 28 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the romance writers | Frenchmen | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | present | Frenchmen | the great king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product | ||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | Frenchmen not said here | writer's court | Paris | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent court=Theme in paris=Location | |||
| 4 | surround | participle | great French lords obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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