Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 14
As he stood there weeping, there came to him his children, for they had been brought from Montalban, and kneeled down before him.
Who acts: Reynaud · What happens: stand, weep, come, bring, kneele down · To what, where: children, Reynaud, Montalban
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Reynaud's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 came | expl |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | obl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 children | nmod:poss |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 brought | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 brought | aux:pass |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 came | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Montalban | case |
| 20 | Montalban | Montalban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kneeled | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kneeled | cc |
| 23 | kneeled | kneele | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 came | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 kneeled | compound:prt |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kneeled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Reynaud | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | weep | gerund | Reynaud not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Reynaud's children | Reynaud | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme | |||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | children = child | Montalban | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from montalban=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | kneele down | participle | before 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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