Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 47
Let it suffice to say in this place that the body was found after certain days and was honourably buried in the church of Cologne, and that year by year a feast is held in the memory of the Lord Reynaud, for indeed he was a very perfect, gentle knight.
Who acts: you, plot, place, Reynaud · What happens: let, suffice, say, find, bury, hold · To what, where: plot, place, body, church, feast, memory · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, plot, place, 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | suffice | suffice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 suffice | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 found | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 body | det |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | aux:pass |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 place | acl:relcl |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 days | case |
| 15 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 days | amod |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 found | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 buried | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 buried | aux:pass |
| 19 | honourably | honourably | ADV | _ | 20 buried | advmod |
| 20 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 found | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 church | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 church | det |
| 23 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buried | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Cologne | case |
| 25 | Cologne | Cologne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 church | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 held | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 held | cc |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 year | det |
| 29 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 held | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 year | case |
| 31 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 year | nmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 feast | det |
| 33 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 held | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 held | aux:pass |
| 35 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 memory | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 memory | det |
| 38 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 held | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Reynaud | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Reynaud | det |
| 41 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Reynaud | compound |
| 42 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 memory | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 knight | punct |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 indeed | case |
| 45 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 53 knight | advmod |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 knight | nsubj |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 knight | cop |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 knight | det |
| 49 | very | very | ADV | _ | 50 perfect | advmod |
| 50 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 knight | amod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 perfect | punct |
| 52 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 knight | amod |
| 53 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 held | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | plot | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suffice | infinitive | plot not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | plot not said here | this place | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in place=Manner | ||||
| 4 | find | past · passive | this place not said here | the body | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 5 | bury | past · passive | this place not said here | the church of Cologne | honourably property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in church=Destination | |||
| 6 | hold | present · passive | a feast | the memory of the Lord Reynaud | year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in memory=Location | |||
| 7 | is a | past | Reynaud | a perfect gentle knight | indeed property | 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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