Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 74
And when the ten knights were quit of the town, and were come into the fields, they began to weep and lament, not for Lothair only, but also for themselves, for they feared the King.
Who acts: knights · What happens: quit, come, begin, weep, lament, fear · To what, where: ten knights, fields, King
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 (knights), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 quit | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knights | det |
| 4 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 knights | nummod |
| 5 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 quit | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 quit | aux:pass |
| 7 | quit | quit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 began | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quit | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux:pass |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 quit | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 fields | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fields | det |
| 17 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 come | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 quit | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 began | nsubj |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 weep | mark |
| 22 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lament | cc |
| 24 | lament | lament | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 weep | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Lothair | punct |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 Lothair | advmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 Lothair | case |
| 28 | Lothair | Lothair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 weep | obl |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 weep | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 themselves | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 themselves | cc |
| 32 | also | also | ADV | _ | 34 themselves | advmod |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 themselves | case |
| 34 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 began | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 feared | punct |
| 36 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 feared | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 feared | nsubj |
| 38 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 began | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 King | det |
| 40 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 feared | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quit | past · passive | the ten knights | of the town | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | come | past · passive | the fields | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: into field=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | knights = knight | for knights = knight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | weep | to-infinitive | knights = knight not said here | for Lothair | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | lament | infinitive | knights = knight not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | fear | past | knights = knight | the King | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus |
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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