Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 117
After this he went to his chamber, and, putting off his rich apparel, clad himself in poor garments, and took a pilgrim's staff in his hand, and so made ready to depart.
Who acts: Naymes · What happens: go, put off, clad, take, make, depart · To what, where: chamber, rich apparel, Naymes, poor garments, staff, hand
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Naymes), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 went | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 chamber | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 7 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 putting | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 putting | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 putting | punct |
| 11 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 putting | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 apparel | nmod:poss |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 apparel | amod |
| 15 | apparel | apparel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 putting | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 clad | punct |
| 17 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 clad | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 garments | case |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 garments | amod |
| 21 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 clad | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pilgrim | det |
| 26 | pilgrim | pilgrim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 staff | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 pilgrim | case |
| 28 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 hand | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 hand | nmod:poss |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 made | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 made | cc |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 made | advmod |
| 35 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 took | parataxis |
| 36 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 made | xcomp |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 depart | mark |
| 38 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 ready | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Naymes | Naymes's chamber | after this | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | put off | gerund | Naymes not said here | Naymes's rich apparel | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent apparel=Goal | ||||
| 3 | clad | past | Naymes not said here | Naymes | poor garments | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take | past | Naymes not said here | a pilgrim's staff | Naymes's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent staff=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 5 | make | participle | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 6 | depart | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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