Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 64
These, when it was day, they sent as an embassage of peace to King Charles.
Who acts: These, others · What happens: be, send · To what, where: day, Charles
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 (These, others), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 day | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 day | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 day | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | cop |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 embassage | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 embassage | det |
| 12 | embassage | embassage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 peace | case |
| 14 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 embassage | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Charles | case |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | These | day | hereafter nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | send | past | others = other | Charles King | as a embassage of peace | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to charles=Destination |
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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