Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 54
Right glad were they when the sun set, and this was about Compline time,[1] for the days were now long.
Who acts: Gerard, this · What happens: be · To what, where: sun set
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 (Gerard, this), 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 | Right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 glad | amod |
| 2 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 set | advcl |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 set | cop |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 set | nsubj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 set | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | compound |
| 8 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 time | cc |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | cop |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | Compline | Compline | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 time | compound |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 1 | punct |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 1 | punct |
| 18 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 time | flat |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 days | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 days | det |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 long | obl |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 long | cop |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 long | advmod |
| 25 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 set | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Gerard | sun set | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | this | about Compline time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | now; day | long property | tree rules |
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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