Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 1
King Charles, being now advanced in years and desiring rest, was minded to lay down his power.
What happens: advance, desire, mind, lay down · To what, where: Charles, rest, power
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 minded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 advanced | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 advanced | aux:pass |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 advanced | advmod |
| 6 | advanced | advance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Charles | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 advanced | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 desiring | cc |
| 10 | desiring | desire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 advanced | conj |
| 11 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 desiring | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Charles | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 minded | aux:pass |
| 14 | minded | mind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 lay | mark |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 minded | xcomp |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 lay | compound:prt |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 power | nmod:poss |
| 19 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 minded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | gerund · passive | Charles King not said here | now; year | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 2 | desire | gerund | rest | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mind | past · passive | Charles King | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lay down | to-infinitive | Charles's power | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Result |
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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