Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 85
I have sinned," he said, and he clasped his hands and lifted them to heaven, and prayed to God that he would take him into Paradise.
Who acts: I, life · What happens: sin, say, clasp, lift, pray, take · To what, where: hands, traitors, heaven, God, Roland, Paradise · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, life), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sinned | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sinned | aux |
| 3 | sinned | sin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sinned | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sinned | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sinned | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clasped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 clasped | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 clasped | nsubj |
| 11 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 clasped | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lifted | cc |
| 15 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 clasped | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lifted | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 heaven | case |
| 18 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lifted | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 prayed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 prayed | cc |
| 21 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 God | case |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 prayed | obl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 take | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 take | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 take | aux |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 prayed | advcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 take | obj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 Paradise | case |
| 30 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 take | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sinned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sin | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | life | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | clasp in a quote | past | life | life's hands | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lift in a quote | past | life not said here | traitors = traitor | heaven | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to heaven=Destination | |||
| 5 | pray in a quote | past | life not said here | God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | would | life | Roland | Paradise | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into paradise=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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