Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 1
There was great trouble and wondering when the brethren knew that Mawgis was not in Montalban.
Who acts: great trouble, brethren, Mawgis · What happens: be, wonder, know, not be · To what, where: Montalban · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great trouble, brethren, Mawgis), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trouble | amod |
| 4 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wondering | cc |
| 6 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 trouble | conj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 knew | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brethren | det |
| 9 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wondering | ccomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 Montalban | mark |
| 12 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Montalban | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Montalban | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 Montalban | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Montalban | case |
| 16 | Montalban | Montalban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | great trouble | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | great trouble not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | know | past | the brethren | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not is | past | Mawgis | Montalban | tree rules |
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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