Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 58
This done, he went to the King's tent and took him out of his bed and laid him across Bayard, and carried him, still sleeping, to Montalban.
Who acts: Bayard · What happens: do, go, take, lay, carry, sleep · To what, where: This, tent, Bayard, bed, Montalban
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 (Bayard), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 went | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 tent | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tent | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 bed | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bed | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bed | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laid | cc |
| 19 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laid | obj |
| 21 | across | across | ADP | _ | 22 Bayard | case |
| 22 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 laid | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 carried | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 carried | cc |
| 25 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 carried | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sleeping | punct |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 sleeping | advmod |
| 29 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 carried | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Montalban | punct |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Montalban | case |
| 32 | Montalban | Montalban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sleeping | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Bayard | the King's tent | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tent=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Bayard not said here | Bayard | Bayard's bed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | lay | past | Bayard not said here | Bayard | Bayard | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result | |||
| 5 | carry | past | Bayard not said here | Bayard | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sleep | gerund | Bayard not said here | Montalban | still | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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