Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 56
Vespers would correspond to our Evening Service, though a little earlier, as at 6 p.m. Compline came at some varying interval after.
Who acts: Vespers, our · What happens: correspond, come, vary, service · To what, where: varying interval
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 (Vespers, our), 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 | Vespers | vesper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 correspond | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 correspond | aux |
| 3 | correspond | correspond | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Service | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Service | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Service | compound |
| 7 | Service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 correspond | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 little | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 earlier | obl |
| 12 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 came | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 earlier | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 Compline | case |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 Compline | case |
| 16 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 Compline | nummod |
| 17 | p.m. | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Compline | compound |
| 18 | Compline | compline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 correspond | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 interval | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 interval | det |
| 22 | varying | vary | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 interval | amod |
| 23 | interval | interval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 24 | after | after | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 correspond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | correspond | would | Vespers | to our Evening Service | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Vespers not said here | some varying interval | as 6 p.m. Compline; after, early property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at interval=Location | |||
| 3 | vary | gerund | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | service | our | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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