Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 32
Now Brutamont was keeper of the King's prison.
What happens: be · To what, where: Brutamont keeper
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 keeper | advmod |
| 2 | Brutamont | Brutamont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 keeper | compound |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 keeper | cop |
| 4 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 prison | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 prison | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 King | case |
| 9 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeper | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Brutamont keeper | now | of the King's prison | 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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