Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 15
Meanwhile Lucifer entered the chamber, and coming up to the Duke of Naymes, who was bareheaded, took him by the beard, and drew him to himself so roughly that he had well-nigh thrown him to the ground. "
Who acts: Lucifer · What happens: enter, come up, barehead, take, draw, throw · To what, where: chamber, Duke, Lucifer, fellow, ground
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 (Lucifer), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | Lucifer | Lucifer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chamber | det |
| 5 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 coming | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 coming | cc |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 entered | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 coming | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Duke | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Duke | det |
| 12 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 coming | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Naymes | case |
| 14 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Duke | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bareheaded | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 bareheaded | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bareheaded | aux:pass |
| 18 | bareheaded | barehead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Duke | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 beard | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beard | det |
| 24 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 drew | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 drew | cc |
| 27 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 drew | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 himself | case |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 drew | obl |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 roughly | advmod |
| 32 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 39 thrown | advmod |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 thrown | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 thrown | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 thrown | aux |
| 36 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 thrown | advmod |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 well | punct |
| 38 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 39 thrown | advmod |
| 39 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 drew | advcl |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 thrown | obj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 ground | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 ground | det |
| 43 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 thrown | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Lucifer | the chamber | meanwhile property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination | |||
| 2 | come up | gerund | Lucifer not said here | to the Duke of Naymes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to duke=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | barehead | past · passive | the Duke of Naymes | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | past | Lucifer | by the beard | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 5 | draw | past | Lucifer | Lucifer | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to himself=Destination | ||||
| 6 | throw | past · perfect | Lucifer | fellow | the ground | nigh, roughly, well property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to ground=Destination |
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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