Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 38
When it was evening the masons came to be paid, and each man's wage was five pennies.
Who acts: stone, masons, wage · What happens: be, come, pay · To what, where: evening, five pennies
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 (stone, masons, wage), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 evening | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 evening | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 evening | cop |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 masons | det |
| 6 | masons | mason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 paid | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 paid | aux:pass |
| 10 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 came | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pennies | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pennies | cc |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wage | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 man | case |
| 16 | wage | wage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pennies | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pennies | cop |
| 18 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 pennies | nummod |
| 19 | pennies | penny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 paid | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | stone | evening | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the masons | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive · passive | the masons not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | each man's wage | five pennies | 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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