Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 78
Then Floripas took the keys, and took the French Knights to a place that was under the castle, where the gods were set in great state, Apollo, to wit, and Mahomet, and Termagaunt, and Jupiter, and others with them.
Who acts: Floripas, place · What happens: take, be, set, wit · To what, where: keys, French Knights, place, castle, gods, great state
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 (Floripas, place), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 keys | det |
| 5 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Knights | det |
| 10 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Knights | amod |
| 11 | Knights | Knight | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 took | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 castle | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 castle | cop |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 set | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gods | det |
| 23 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 set | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 set | aux:pass |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 castle | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 state | case |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 state | amod |
| 28 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Apollo | punct |
| 30 | Apollo | Apollo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 state | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wit | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 wit | mark |
| 33 | wit | wit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Mahomet | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Mahomet | cc |
| 36 | Mahomet | Mahomet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Termagaunt | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Termagaunt | cc |
| 39 | Termagaunt | Termagaunt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Jupiter | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Jupiter | cc |
| 42 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 others | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 others | cc |
| 45 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 them | case |
| 47 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 others | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Floripas | the keys | then | Mahomet obl; Termagaunt obl; Jupiter obl; others with others obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | ||
| 2 | take | past | Floripas not said here | the French Knights | a place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knight=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | a place | the castle | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | set | past · passive | the gods | great state | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in state=Destination | ||||
| 5 | wit | to-infinitive | 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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