Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 62
When the Duke heard this he stood up on his feet in a great rage, crying to Lothair that it was an evil day for him on which he came to the town of Aygremont.
Who acts: Duke, rage · What happens: hear, stand up, cry, be, come · To what, where: this, feet, Lothair, evil day, town
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, rage), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Duke | det |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 stood | compound:prt |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stood | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 rage | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rage | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rage | amod |
| 15 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crying | punct |
| 17 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stood | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Lothair | case |
| 19 | Lothair | lothair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crying | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 day | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 day | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 day | cop |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 24 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crying | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 day | nmod |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 came | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 day | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 town | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 town | det |
| 34 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 came | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Aygremont | case |
| 36 | Aygremont | Aygremont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 town | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Duke | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand up | past | Duke | Duke's feet | in a great rage | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foot=Location | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | Duke not said here | Lothair | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lothair=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | rage | a evil day | for Duke | tree rules | |||
| 5 | come | past | Duke | the town of Aygremont | on a evil day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_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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