Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 2
First, then, when he was come to the city of Constantinople, he lighted by chance on his cousin Mawgis, who was lying sick in a certain house.
Who acts: Reynaud, cousin · What happens: come, light, lie · To what, where: Reynaud, certain house
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, cousin), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 come | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 First | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 come | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 come | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux:pass |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 city | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Constantinople | case |
| 13 | Constantinople | Constantinople | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 city | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lighted | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lighted | nsubj |
| 16 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 come | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 chance | case |
| 18 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lighted | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 cousin | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 21 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chance | nmod |
| 22 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 cousin | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lying | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 lying | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lying | aux |
| 26 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 cousin | conj |
| 27 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lying | xcomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 house | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 house | det |
| 30 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 house | amod |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lying | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · passive | Reynaud | then | to the city of Constantinople; first property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | light | participle | Reynaud | by chance on Reynaud's cousin | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lie | past · progressive | Reynaud's cousin | a certain house | sick property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location |
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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