Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 1
King Charles held a great court in his capital city of Paris at the Feast of Pentecost.
Who acts: King · What happens: hold · To what, where: great court, capital city
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 held | nsubj |
| 2 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 court | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 court | amod |
| 6 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 city | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 city | nmod:poss |
| 9 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 city | compound |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Paris | case |
| 12 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 city | nmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Feast | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Feast | det |
| 15 | Feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Pentecost | case |
| 17 | Pentecost | Pentecost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Feast | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | King | a great court | King's capital city of Paris | at the Feast of Pentecost | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent court=Theme in city=Location |
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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