Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 38
So the Duke and his knights sat down, seeming to be content.
Who acts: Duke · What happens: sit down, seem, be
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 sat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Duke | det |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 knights | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 knights | nmod:poss |
| 6 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Duke | conj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 sat | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seeming | punct |
| 10 | seeming | seem | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sat | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 content | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 content | cop |
| 13 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seeming | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | the Duke and Duke's knights | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seem | gerund | the Duke and Duke's knights not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | the Duke and Duke's knights not said here | content property | 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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