Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 43
While he was speaking a certain knight in the company of Duke Richard slew Gerard's nephew before his face.
Who acts: friend · What happens: speak, slay · To what, where: certain knight, company, nephew · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 speaking | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 speaking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speaking | aux |
| 4 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 slew | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knight | det |
| 6 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 knight | amod |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speaking | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 company | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 company | det |
| 10 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speaking | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Richard | case |
| 12 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Richard | compound |
| 13 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 company | nmod |
| 14 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Gerard | Gerard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Gerard | case |
| 17 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slew | obj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 face | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 face | nmod:poss |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slew | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | friend | a certain knight | the company of Duke Richard | tree rules | |||
| 2 | slay | past | Gerard's nephew | before friend's face | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nephew=Patient |
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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