Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 73
After this he delivered to them the body of Lothair, laying it in a cart drawn by two horses.
Who acts: Paris · What happens: deliver, lay, draw · To what, where: body, lands, cart
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 (Paris), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 delivered | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 delivered | nsubj |
| 4 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 delivered | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delivered | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Lothair | case |
| 10 | Lothair | Lothair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 body | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laying | punct |
| 12 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 delivered | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 laying | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cart | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cart | det |
| 16 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laying | obl |
| 17 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cart | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 horses | case |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 horses | nummod |
| 20 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 drawn | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | past | Paris | the body of Lothair | lands = land | after this | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to they=Destination | ||
| 2 | lay | gerund | Paris not said here | body | a cart | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cart=Destination | |||
| 3 | draw | participle | a cart not said here | by two horses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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