Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 98
Ten only were left alive, and these were spared upon this condition, that they should take the body of the Duke to his town of Aygremont, even as the body of Prince Lothair had been taken by ten of his knights to the town of Paris.
Who acts: knights · What happens: leave, spare, take · To what, where: Ten, these, body, town
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 (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 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 left | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 left | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spared | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spared | cc |
| 8 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 spared | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 spared | aux:pass |
| 10 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 left | conj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 condition | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 condition | det |
| 13 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spared | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 spared | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 body | det |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Duke | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Duke | det |
| 23 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 body | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 town | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 town | nmod:poss |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Aygremont | case |
| 28 | Aygremont | Aygremont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 town | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 body | punct |
| 30 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 body | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 body | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 body | det |
| 33 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 taken | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Prince | case |
| 35 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 body | nmod |
| 36 | Lothair | Lothair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Prince | flat |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 taken | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 taken | aux:pass |
| 39 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 left | parataxis |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 ten | case |
| 41 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 taken | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 knights | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 knights | nmod:poss |
| 44 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 ten | nmod |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 town | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 town | det |
| 47 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 knights | nmod |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Paris | case |
| 49 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 town | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Ten | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spare | past · passive | these | upon this condition | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 3 | take | should | knights = knight | the body of the Duke | Duke's town of Aygremont | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to town=Destination | |||
| 4 | take | past · perfect · passive | the body of Prince | by ten of Duke's knights to the town of Paris | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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