Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 70
In the end, after that Prince Lothair had been slain by the Duke himself, there remained but ten of the hundred knights alive.
Who acts: Duke · What happens: slay, remain · To what, where: end
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slain | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 Lothair | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 Lothair | nsubj |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lothair | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Lothair | Lothair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 slain | obl |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 slain | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 slain | aux:pass |
| 11 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Duke | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Duke | det |
| 14 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 slain | obl |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 Duke | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remained | punct |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 remained | advmod |
| 18 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 slain | parataxis |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 alive | cc |
| 20 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 alive | compound |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 knights | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 knights | det |
| 23 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 knights | nummod |
| 24 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ten | nmod |
| 25 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 remained | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past · perfect · passive | the Duke Duke | in the end; after Lothair that Prince | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | remain | participle | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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