Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 20
In Montalban, therefore, he dwelt awhile, with his two sons, teaching them and training them in all honourable and godly ways.
Who acts: Montalban · What happens: dwell, teach, train · To what, where: Montalban, sons, honourable ways
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 (Montalban), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Montalban | case |
| 2 | Montalban | Montalban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dwelt | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Montalban | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 7 dwelt | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dwelt | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dwelt | nsubj |
| 7 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 7 dwelt | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sons | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sons | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sons | nmod:poss |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 sons | nummod |
| 13 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dwelt | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 teaching | punct |
| 15 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 sons | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 teaching | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 training | cc |
| 18 | training | train | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 teaching | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 training | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 ways | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 ways | det |
| 22 | honourable | honourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ways | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 godly | cc |
| 24 | godly | godly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 honourable | conj |
| 25 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 training | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | Montalban | Montalban | Montalban's two sons parataxis; awhile, therefore property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in montalban=Location | |||
| 2 | teach speech: other | gerund | Montalban not said here | sons = son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | train | gerund | Montalban not said here | sons = son | all honourable ways | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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