Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 45
They had received absolution, and were set free from all their sins, and the Archbishop had blessed them in the name of God.
Who acts: men · What happens: receive, be, bless, name · To what, where: absolution, sins, Archbishop, name, God
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 received | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | aux |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | absolution | absolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 free | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 free | cc |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 free | cop |
| 8 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 free | amod |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 received | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 sins | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 sins | det:predet |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sins | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 free | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 blessed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 blessed | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Archbishop | det |
| 17 | Archbishop | Archbishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 blessed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 blessed | aux |
| 19 | blessed | bless | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 received | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 blessed | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 name | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 name | det |
| 23 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blessed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 God | case |
| 25 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 name | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · perfect | men = man | absolution | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent absolution=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | men = man not said here | men's sins | free property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bless | past · perfect · passive | the Archbishop | the name of God | men = man obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | name | God | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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