Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 21
About this time he chanced to send his steward into the city to buy provisions.
Who acts: Duke · What happens: chance, send, buy · To what, where: steward, city, provisions
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chanced | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chanced | nsubj |
| 5 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 send | mark |
| 7 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 chanced | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 steward | nmod:poss |
| 9 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 send | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 city | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 send | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 buy | mark |
| 14 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 send | advcl |
| 15 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 buy | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | past | Duke | time | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | to-infinitive | Duke not said here | Duke's steward | the city | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steward=Theme | |||
| 3 | buy | to-infinitive | Duke not said here | provisions | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=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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