Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 8
First he humbled himself before his gods, and vowed that he would offer to them a thousand pounds of fine gold.
Who acts: Admiral · What happens: humble, vow, offer · To what, where: Admiral, thousand pounds, gods
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 humbled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 humbled | nsubj |
| 3 | humbled | humble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 humbled | obj |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 gods | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gods | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 humbled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 vowed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 vowed | cc |
| 10 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 humbled | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 offer | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 offer | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 offer | aux |
| 14 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 vowed | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 offer | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thousand | det |
| 18 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 pounds | nummod |
| 19 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 offer | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 21 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gold | amod |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pounds | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 humbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | humble | past | Admiral | Admiral | before Admiral's gods | first property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | vow | past | Admiral not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | offer | would | Admiral | thousand pounds of fine gold | gods = god | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent pound=Theme to they=Goal |
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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