Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 57
When Duke Benes and his brothers came together after the battle they had much debate as to what should be done.
Who acts: Duke, Vespers · What happens: come together, have, do · To what, where: much debate
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 (Duke, Vespers), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 3 | Benes | Benes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Duke | flat |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 brothers | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Duke | conj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | advcl |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 battle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 battle | det |
| 11 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 debate | amod |
| 15 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 done | mark |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 as | fixed |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 done | obj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 done | aux:pass |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 had | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come together | past | Duke and Duke's brothers | after the battle | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | Vespers = vesper | much debate | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debate=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | should · passive | Vespers = vesper not said here | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
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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