Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 42
Thereupon the men of France dismounted, and knelt upon the ground, and the Archbishop blessed them in God's name. "
Who acts: men, Archbishop, God · What happens: dismount, kneel, bless, name · To what, where: ground, men, name
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Archbishop, God), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 6 dismounted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dismounted | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 France | case |
| 5 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 men | nmod |
| 6 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knelt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knelt | cc |
| 9 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dismounted | conj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knelt | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blessed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blessed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Archbishop | det |
| 16 | Archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blessed | nsubj |
| 17 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dismounted | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 blessed | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 name | case |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 name | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 God | case |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blessed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dismounted | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | the men of France | thereupon property | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | kneel | past | the men of France not said here | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=Location | ||||
| 3 | bless | past | the Archbishop | men = man | God's name | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | name | God | nom name «communication 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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