Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 89
When they jousted in the lists, for the King held a tournament at St. Victor that was near to Paris, not one did so well as Reynaud.
Who acts: knights, King, St. Victor · What happens: joust, hold, be, do · To what, where: lists, tournament, St. Victor
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, King, St. Victor), 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 | 3 jousted | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jousted | nsubj |
| 3 | jousted | joust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 held | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 lists | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lists | det |
| 6 | lists | list | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 jousted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 held | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 held | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 held | nsubj |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tournament | det |
| 13 | tournament | tournament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Victor | case |
| 15 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Victor | compound |
| 16 | Victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 did | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Paris | cop |
| 19 | near | near | ADV | _ | 21 Paris | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Paris | case |
| 21 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 did | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 one | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 one | advmod |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 Paris | appos |
| 25 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Victor | acl:relcl |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 well | advmod |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 did | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 Reynaud | case |
| 29 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 well | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joust | past | knights = knight | the lists | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the King | a tournament | St. Victor | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tournament=Theme at victor=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | to Paris; one appos; near property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | past | St. Victor | well property | vn act-114-1 «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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