Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 231
All that night these noble ladies watched by her dead body; the day following she was buried by the altar with great honour.
What happens: watch, follow, bury · To what, where: noble ladies, one more
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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 night | det:predet |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 following | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 ladies | det |
| 5 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ladies | amod |
| 6 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 night | nmod |
| 7 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ladies | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 body | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 body | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 body | amod |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watched | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 following | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 following | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 buried | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 buried | aux:pass |
| 18 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 following | acl:relcl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 altar | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 altar | det |
| 21 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 buried | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 honour | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 honour | amod |
| 24 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 buried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 following | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | participle | this noble ladies not said here | by one more's dead body | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by body=Location | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | day; night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bury | past · passive | one more = more | by the altar; with great honour | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme by altar=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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