Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 97
When the Duke was dead there was a great slaughter of his knights.
Who acts: Duke, great slaughter · What happens: be, slaughter · To what, where: knights
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, great slaughter), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 dead | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Duke | det |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 slaughter | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 slaughter | amod |
| 10 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 knights | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 knights | nmod:poss |
| 13 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 slaughter | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Duke | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a great slaughter of Duke's knights | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slaughter | Duke's knights | nom slaughter «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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