Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 84
Now is the time to take vengeance on him for the murder of Prince Lothair." "
What happens: be, take, murder · To what, where: time, vengeance, Lothair
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: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 time | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 murder | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 murder | det |
| 12 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Lothair | case |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lothair | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Lothair | Lothair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 murder | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lothair | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lothair | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lothair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the time | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | vengeance | on King; for the murder of Lothair Prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vengeance=Theme on he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | murder | Lothair Prince | nom murder «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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