Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 51
As for his servants they cursed King Charles and the land of France, and vehemently reproached their god Apollyon. "
Who acts: servants · What happens: curse, reproach · To what, where: Charles, god
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: who acts (servants), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 servants | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 servants | nmod:poss |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cursed | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cursed | nsubj |
| 6 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cursed | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 land | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Charles | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 France | case |
| 13 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 land | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reproached | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reproached | cc |
| 16 | vehemently | vehemently | ADV | _ | 17 reproached | advmod |
| 17 | reproached | reproach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cursed | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 god | nmod:poss |
| 19 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reproached | obj |
| 20 | Apollyon | Apollyon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 god | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cursed | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cursed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | past | servants = servant | Charles King and the land of France | as Meanwhile's servants | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent charles=Theme as servant=Attribute | |||
| 2 | reproach | past | servants = servant not said here | servants's god | vehemently property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=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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