Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 1
As the Admiral sat at dinner there came into the hall the chieftain who was named Lucifer, and was a special friend to the Admiral.
Who acts: Admiral · What happens: sit, come, name, be · To what, where: dinner, hall, chieftain, special friend
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Admiral), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 sat | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Admiral | det |
| 3 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | advcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 dinner | case |
| 6 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sat | advmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 hall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hall | det |
| 11 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chieftain | det |
| 13 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hall | appos |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 named | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 named | aux:pass |
| 16 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 chieftain | acl:relcl |
| 17 | Lucifer | Lucifer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 named | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 friend | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 friend | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 friend | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 friend | det |
| 22 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 friend | amod |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Admiral | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Admiral | det |
| 26 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 friend | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Admiral | dinner; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at dinner=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the hall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | name | past · passive | the chieftain | Lucifer xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a special friend | to the Admiral | 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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