Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 2
The next day, after they had heard mass, he was minded to set forth, and he said to his brothers and Mawgis, "Tarry here and keep this castle." "
Who acts: Barons, Reynaud · What happens: hear, be, set, say, keep · To what, where: mass, brothers, castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barons, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 heard | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | aux |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 minded | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 minded | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 minded | cop |
| 13 | minded | minded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heard | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 set | mark |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 minded | csubj |
| 16 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 15 set | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 brothers | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 said | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Mawgis | cc |
| 25 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 brothers | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Tarry | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Tarry | punct |
| 28 | Tarry | Tarry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Mawgis | conj |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 brothers | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 keep | cc |
| 31 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | conj |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 castle | det |
| 33 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 keep | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | Barons = baron | mass | day | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mass=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | Reynaud | minded property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set | to-infinitive | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Reynaud | Reynaud's brothers and Mawgis and Tarry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | infinitive | Reynaud not said here | this castle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=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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