Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 68
Having entered the house he saw an oratory and in it an image of Our Lady, and when he had knelt down before it he prayed that Our Lord would forgive him his sins.
Who acts: Reynaud, house, Lord · What happens: have, enter, see, kneel down, pray, forgive · To what, where: house, oratory, Reynaud, Lady
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, house, Lord), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | parataxis |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 oratory | det |
| 8 | oratory | oratory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 image | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 image | obl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 image | det |
| 13 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Lady | case |
| 15 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Lady | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 image | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knelt | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 knelt | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 knelt | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 knelt | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 knelt | aux |
| 22 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 saw | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 knelt | compound:prt |
| 24 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 27 prayed | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 prayed | nsubj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 prayed | nsubj |
| 27 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 knelt | advcl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 forgive | mark |
| 29 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 30 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 forgive | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 forgive | aux |
| 32 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 prayed | ccomp |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 forgive | obj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 sins | nmod:poss |
| 35 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 forgive | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | enter | past | the house | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Reynaud | a oratory | a image in house of Our Lady conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oratory=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | kneel down | past · perfect | Reynaud | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | pray | past | house | Reynaud nsubj | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | forgive | would | Our Lord | Reynaud | Reynaud's sins obj | tree rules | |||
| 7 | image | Our Lady | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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