Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 205
There stood Queen Branimonde, with her priests about her, waiting and watching for news of the war.
What happens: stand, wait, watch · To what, where: Queen
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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 stood | expl |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obj |
| 4 | Branimonde | Branimonde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Queen | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 priests | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 priests | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 priests | nmod:poss |
| 8 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stood | obl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 priests | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waiting | punct |
| 12 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stood | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watching | cc |
| 14 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 waiting | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 news | case |
| 16 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watching | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 war | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 war | det |
| 19 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 news | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Queen | there | with Queen's priests about Queen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | for news of the war | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for news=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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