Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 73
Under a thorn he found it, and he raised it tenderly in his arms, and brought it back to where the Archbishop sat, and put it hard by the other Peers of France.
Who acts: Roland, Archbishop · What happens: find, raise, bring back, sit, put · To what, where: thorn
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, Archbishop), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 thorn | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thorn | det |
| 3 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 raised | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 raised | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 raised | nsubj |
| 10 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 raised | obj |
| 12 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 raised | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 arms | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arms | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tenderly | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | obj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 brought | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 sat | case |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 sat | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Archbishop | det |
| 24 | Archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sat | nsubj |
| 25 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 put | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 put | cc |
| 28 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 found | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 put | obj |
| 30 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 put | advmod |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 Peers | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Peers | det |
| 33 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Peers | amod |
| 34 | Peers | Peer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 put | parataxis |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 France | case |
| 36 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Peers | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Roland | thorn | a thorn | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | raise | past | Roland | thorn | tenderly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | bring back | past | Roland not said here | thorn | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit | past | the Archbishop | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | Roland not said here | thorn | the other Peers of France parataxis; hard property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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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