Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 64
When Mawgis had delivered the King to Reynaud he went to the stable where he had left Bayard and rubbed the horse's back and head with straw, and kissed him, weeping the while.
Who acts: Reynaud · What happens: deliver, go, leave, rub, kiss, weep · To what, where: Mawgis, Reynaud, stable, Bayard, back
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 delivered | advmod |
| 2 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delivered | aux |
| 4 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 went | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delivered | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Reynaud | case |
| 8 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delivered | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 stable | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stable | det |
| 13 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 left | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 left | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 left | aux |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 stable | acl:relcl |
| 18 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 left | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rubbed | cc |
| 20 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horse | det |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 horse | case |
| 24 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rubbed | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 head | cc |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 back | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 straw | case |
| 28 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rubbed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 kissed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 kissed | cc |
| 31 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 kissed | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 weeping | punct |
| 34 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 kissed | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 while | det |
| 36 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 weeping | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | past · perfect · passive | Mawgis | Reynaud | the King obj | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary king=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past | Reynaud | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect | Reynaud | Bayard | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bayard=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rub | past | Reynaud not said here | the horse's back and head | with straw | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Destination with straw=Theme | |||
| 5 | kiss | past | Reynaud not said here | Reynaud | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | weep | gerund | Reynaud not said here | while | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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