Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 81

Some seven days before the Feast of St. John Baptist the Duke Benes set out from Aygremont that he might present himself according to his promise before King Charles.

Who acts: seven days, Duke · What happens: set out, present, accord, promise · To what, where: Aygremont, Duke

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 (seven days, Duke), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 days	det
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 set	nsubj
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 Feast	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Feast	det
6	Feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 days	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 John	case
8	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 John	nmod:desc
9	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Feast	nmod
10	Baptist	Baptist	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 John	flat
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Duke	det
12	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 John	conj
13	Benes	Benes	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Duke	flat
14	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 set	compound:prt
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 Aygremont	case
17	Aygremont	Aygremont	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 set	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 present	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 present	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 present	aux
21	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 set	advcl
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 present	obj
23	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 promise	case
24	to	to	ADP	_	23 according	fixed
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 promise	nmod:poss
26	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 present	obl
27	before	before	ADP	_	29 Charles	case
28	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Charles	nmod:desc
29	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 present	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past	some seven days before the Feast of John St. and the Duke		Aygremont			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from aygremont=Initial_Location
2	present	might	Duke	Duke		before Charles King	accord Duke's promise	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	promise		Duke					nom promise «communication 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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 81

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 81