Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 23
There is a young man lodged in the Provost's house that has bought all the victuals that were in the city, and has feasted therewith all the rogues and vagabonds in it."
Who acts: young man, victuals · What happens: be, lodge, buy, feast · To what, where: young man, house, city, rogues
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 (young man, victuals), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 man | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Provost | det |
| 9 | Provost | Provost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Provost | case |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lodged | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bought | aux |
| 14 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 house | acl:relcl |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 victuals | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 victuals | det |
| 17 | victuals | victual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bought | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 city | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 city | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 city | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 city | det |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 victuals | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 feasted | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 feasted | cc |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 feasted | aux |
| 26 | feasted | feast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 is | conj |
| 27 | therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 28 all | advmod |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 rogues | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rogues | det |
| 30 | rogues | rogue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 feasted | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 vagabonds | cc |
| 32 | vagabonds | vagabond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 rogues | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 feasted | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a young man | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lodge | participle | a young man not said here | the Provost's house | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 3 | buy | present · perfect · passive | the Provost's house | all victuals obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary victual=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | all victuals | the city | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feast | present · perfect | a young man not said here | all rogues and vagabonds | city | tree rules |
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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