Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 54
Supper being ended, Reynaud said to Mawgis, "Cousin, I pray you to watch this night, for on this hangs the lives of us all." "
Who acts: Supper, Reynaud · What happens: be, say, pray, watch, hang · To what, where: Mawgis, lives, this · 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 (Supper, 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 | Supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ended | nsubj |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ended | cop |
| 3 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ended | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Mawgis | case |
| 8 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Cousin | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Cousin | punct |
| 11 | Cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Mawgis | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pray | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 pray | nsubj |
| 14 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ended | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 pray | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 watch | mark |
| 17 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pray | xcomp |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 night | det |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 watch | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hangs | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 hangs | mark |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 this | case |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 hangs | obl |
| 24 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ended | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lives | det |
| 26 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hangs | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 us | case |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 lives | nmod |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 hangs | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 hangs | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 hangs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | Supper | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Reynaud | Mawgis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mawgis=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | pray in a quote | present | Reynaud | Mawgis | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | watch in a quote | to-infinitive | Reynaud not said here | night | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hang in a quote | present | Supper not said here | the lives of us | this | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme on this=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.
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