Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 89
For this cause I drave them out of my chamber, slaying some of them--I know not how many.
Who acts: I · What happens: drave, slay, not know · To what, where: commandment, chamber, some, many
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 (I), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 cause | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 cause | det |
| 3 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drave | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 drave | nsubj |
| 5 | drave | drave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drave | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 chamber | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 chamber | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 10 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slaying | punct |
| 12 | slaying | slay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 drave | advcl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 slaying | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 some | nmod |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 drave | conj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 know | advmod |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 many | advmod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 know | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drave | present | I | commandment | my chamber | for this cause | tree rules | ||
| 2 | slay | gerund | I not said here | some of commandment | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not know | present | I | many | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer many=Stimulus |
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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