Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 64
Then the servants of the Emir spread on the grass a carpet of white silk, and on it they set an ivory chair.
Who acts: servants · What happens: spread, set · To what, where: carpet, grass, ivory chair, silk
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 spread | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servants | det |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Emir | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Emir | det |
| 6 | Emir | Emir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 servants | nmod |
| 7 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 grass | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grass | det |
| 10 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spread | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 carpet | det |
| 12 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spread | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 silk | case |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 silk | amod |
| 15 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carpet | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 set | cc |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 set | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 set | nsubj |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spread | conj |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 chair | det |
| 23 | ivory | ivory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 chair | amod |
| 24 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the servants of the Emir | a carpet of white silk | the grass | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent carpet=Theme on grass=Destination | ||
| 2 | set | past | servants = servant | a ivory chair | silk | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme on it=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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