Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 68
Then he carried them one by one and set them all on their knees before the Archbishop.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: carry, set · To what, where: Peers, knees
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 (Roland), 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 carried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | obj |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 carried | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 carried | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 set | obj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 knees | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 knees | nmod:poss |
| 14 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 set | obl |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 Archbishop | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Archbishop | det |
| 17 | Archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Roland | Peers = peer | then | one obj | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme they=Beneficiary one=Value | ||
| 2 | set | infinitive | Roland not said here | Peers = peer | Peers's knees | before the Archbishop | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on knee=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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