Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 101
But the bodies were wrapped in deer-skins, with store of spices, and set each in a carriage, that they might be taken to the town of Blois.
What happens: wrap, set, take · To what, where: bodies, deer skins, each, carriage, spices, town
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 wrapped | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bodies | det |
| 3 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 5 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 skins | case |
| 7 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skins | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 deer | punct |
| 9 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wrapped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 store | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 store | case |
| 12 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skins | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 spices | case |
| 14 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 store | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrapped | parataxis |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 set | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 carriage | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 carriage | det |
| 21 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 taken | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 taken | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 taken | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 taken | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 taken | aux:pass |
| 27 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 set | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 town | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 town | det |
| 30 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 taken | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Blois | case |
| 32 | Blois | Blois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 town | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | past · passive | the bodies | deer skins | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in skin=Destination | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | each | a carriage | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent each=Theme in carriage=Destination | ||||
| 3 | take | might · passive | spices = spice | the town of Blois | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to town=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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