Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 53
Then he bethought him of the Archbishop; when he looked, he saw him laid upon the plain.
Who acts: Fain, heathen · What happens: bethink, look, see, lay · To what, where: heathen, plain
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fain, heathen), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bethought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bethought | nsubj |
| 3 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bethought | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Archbishop | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Archbishop | det |
| 7 | Archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bethought | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 looked | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bethought | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | obj |
| 16 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 saw | xcomp |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 plain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plain | det |
| 19 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laid | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bethought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bethink | past | Fain | heathen | then | of the Archbishop | tree rules | ||
| 2 | look | past | Fain | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Fain | heathen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lay | participle | heathen not said here | the plain | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon plain=Destination |
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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