Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 77
Then the knights went up and kissed the Holy Relics reverently, not without tears.
Who acts: knights · What happens: go up, kiss · To what, where: Holy Relics
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knights | det |
| 3 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kissed | cc |
| 7 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Relics | det |
| 9 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 10 Relics | compound |
| 10 | Relics | Relic | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 kissed | obj |
| 11 | reverently | reverently | ADV | _ | 7 kissed | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tears | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 tears | advmod |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 tears | case |
| 15 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kissed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | the knights | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | the knights not said here | the Holy Relics | without tears; reverently property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relic=Co-Agent |
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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