Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 50
Then Lothair and his knights were brought into the hall, where the Duke sat among his lords, having the Duchess his wife by him and before him his son Mawgis.
Who acts: Duke · What happens: bring, sit, have · To what, where: Lothair, hall, Duchess
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 (Duke), 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 | 7 brought | advmod |
| 2 | Lothair | Lothair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 knights | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 knights | nmod:poss |
| 5 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Lothair | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux:pass |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 hall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hall | det |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sat | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 sat | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Duke | det |
| 14 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sat | nsubj |
| 15 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hall | acl:relcl |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 lords | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lords | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sat | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 having | punct |
| 20 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 brought | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Duchess | det |
| 22 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 having | obj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 having | obj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 having | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 him | cc |
| 28 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 him | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 son | nmod:poss |
| 31 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 having | obj |
| 32 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 son | appos |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | Lothair and Lothair's knights | the hall | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into hall=Destination | |||
| 2 | sit | past | the Duke | among Duke's lords | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among lord=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | the Duchess | by Duke; Duke's wife obj; Duke's son obj | 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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