Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 18
Not long after the Duke Aymon died, bequeathing much wealth to his children.
Who acts: Duke Aymon · What happens: die, bequeath · To what, where: much wealth, children
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 (Duke Aymon), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 died | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 died | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Aymon | det |
| 5 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Aymon | compound |
| 6 | Aymon | Aymon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 died | nsubj |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bequeathing | punct |
| 9 | bequeathing | bequeath | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 died | advcl |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wealth | amod |
| 11 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bequeathing | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 children | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 children | nmod:poss |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bequeathing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the Duke Aymon | long property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | bequeath | gerund | the Duke Aymon not said here | much wealth | Aymon's children | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme to child=Goal |
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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