Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 98
And when he had ended his words, he fell to the ground in a swoon for grief and the pain of his wounds.
Who acts: King · What happens: end, fall, word, pain, wound · To what, where: words, swoon, wounds
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 (King), 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 | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 ended | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | aux |
| 5 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 fell | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ended | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ended | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 swoon | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 swoon | det |
| 16 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 grief | case |
| 18 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swoon | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pain | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pain | det |
| 21 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grief | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wounds | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pain | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past · perfect | King | King's words | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector word=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | King | a swoon for grief and the pain of King's wounds | to the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in swoon=Location | |||
| 3 | word | King | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | pain | King's wounds | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | wound | King | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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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