Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 45
So they laid a plot against him, and on a certain day when he slept they slew him, and having put his body into a sack, they cast it into the river.
Who acts: pennies, Reynaud · What happens: lay, sleep, slay, put, cast · To what, where: plot, Reynaud, body, sack, river
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 (pennies, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 laid | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plot | det |
| 5 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obj |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 slew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 slew | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slew | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 slept | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 slept | nsubj |
| 16 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 day | acl:relcl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 slew | nsubj |
| 18 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 slew | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 put | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 put | cc |
| 22 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 put | aux |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 slew | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 body | nmod:poss |
| 25 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 sack | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 sack | det |
| 28 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cast | punct |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 cast | nsubj |
| 31 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 put | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 cast | obj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 river | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 river | det |
| 35 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cast | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | pennies = penny | a plot | against Reynaud | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plot=Theme against he=Destination | |||
| 2 | sleep | past | Reynaud | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | slay | past | pennies = penny | Reynaud | day | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 4 | put | gerund · perfect | pennies = penny not said here | Reynaud's body | a sack | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent body=Goal | |||
| 5 | cast | present | pennies = penny | body | the river | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into river=Product |
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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