Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 90
So soon as the Duke saw him, he was aware of his evil purpose. "
Who acts: Duke · What happens: see, be, purpose · To what, where: Guenes
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), 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 | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Duke | det |
| 5 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 aware | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 aware | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 aware | cop |
| 11 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 purpose | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 14 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 purpose | amod |
| 15 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 aware | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 aware | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Duke | Guenes | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | Duke | of Duke's evil purpose; aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | purpose | Duke | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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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