Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 100
The hearts of these three were taken out of their bodies and wrapped in silk, and then enclosed in coffins of white marble.
What happens: take out, wrap, enclose · To what, where: hearts, bodies, silk, coffins
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hearts | det |
| 2 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 three | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 three | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hearts | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux:pass |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 bodies | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bodies | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taken | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wrapped | cc |
| 13 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 taken | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 silk | case |
| 15 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wrapped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 enclosed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 enclosed | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 enclosed | advmod |
| 19 | enclosed | enclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 taken | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 coffins | case |
| 21 | coffins | coffin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 enclosed | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 marble | case |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 marble | amod |
| 24 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 coffins | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past · passive | the hearts of this three | others's bodies | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wrap | participle | silk | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in silk=Destination | |||||
| 3 | enclose | participle | coffins of white marble | then | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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