Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 79
Now the Duke sat in his chamber playing chess with Yonnet, that was son to Reynaud.
Who acts: Duke · What happens: sit, play, be · To what, where: chamber, chess, son, Reynaud
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 (Duke), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Duke | det |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | 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 sat | obl |
| 8 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sat | advcl |
| 9 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 playing | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Yonnet | case |
| 11 | Yonnet | Yonnet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 playing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 son | punct |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 son | det |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 son | cop |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Yonnet | appos |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Reynaud | case |
| 17 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Duke | Duke's chamber | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chamber=Location | |||
| 2 | play | gerund | the Duke not said here | chess | with Yonnet | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chess=Theme with yonnet=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | is a | past | that son | Reynaud | 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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