Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 79
So they put off their fine array, and went, having but a single garment apiece, and with bare feet, and four thousand knights went with them in the same plight.
Who acts: messengers, thousand knights · What happens: put off, go, have · To what, where: fine array, same plight
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 (messengers, thousand knights), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 array | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 array | amod |
| 7 | array | array | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 having | punct |
| 12 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 apiece | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 apiece | det |
| 15 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 apiece | amod |
| 16 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 apiece | compound |
| 17 | apiece | apiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 having | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feet | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 feet | cc |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 feet | case |
| 21 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 feet | amod |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 25 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 thousand | compound |
| 26 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 knights | nummod |
| 27 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 went | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 plight | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 plight | det |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 plight | amod |
| 34 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put off | past | messengers = messenger | messengers's fine array | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent array=Goal | ||||
| 2 | go | past | messengers = messenger not said here | with bare feet | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with foot=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | a single garment apiece conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | thousand knights | the same plight | with messengers = messenger | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
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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