Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 107
Then his lords bore him up on one side and the other, and brought him to St. Germaine's.
Who acts: lords · What happens: bear up, bring · To what, where: King, one side, Germaine
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 (lords), 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 | 4 bore | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lords | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bore | nsubj |
| 4 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bore | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 bore | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 side | nummod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bore | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 other | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 side | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bore | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Germaine | case |
| 18 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Germaine | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Germaine | Germaine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Germaine | case |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear up | past | King's lords | King | one side | then | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||
| 2 | bring | past | King's lords not said here | King | Germaine St. | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to germaine=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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