Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 6
There they confessed their sins to the Pope, and having received absolution, made their way with all the speed they could to the city of Ardennes, where the brethren and all the people received them gladly.
Who acts: words, brethren · What happens: confess, have, receive, make · To what, where: sins, Pope, received absolution, way, words
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 (words, brethren), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 confessed | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 confessed | nsubj |
| 3 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sins | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 confessed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Pope | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Pope | det |
| 8 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 confessed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 having | cc |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 confessed | advcl |
| 12 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 absolution | amod |
| 13 | absolution | absolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 having | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 confessed | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 way | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 speed | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 speed | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 speed | det |
| 21 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 city | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 city | aux |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 city | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 city | det |
| 26 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 speed | acl:relcl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Ardennes | case |
| 28 | Ardennes | Ardennes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 city | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 received | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 received | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 brethren | det |
| 32 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 received | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 people | cc |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 people | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 people | det |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 brethren | conj |
| 37 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 city | acl:relcl |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 received | obj |
| 39 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 37 received | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 confessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | past | words = word | words's sins | the Pope | there | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sin=Topic to pope=Recipient | ||
| 2 | have | gerund | words = word not said here | received absolution | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent absolution=Patient | ||||
| 3 | receive | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | make | past | words = word not said here | words's way | with all speed to the city words of Ardennes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | |||
| 5 | receive | past | the brethren and all people | words = word | gladly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «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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