Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 69
And the prisoners fell on the company that was gathered at dinner with the Duke, and slew them.
Who acts: prisoners · What happens: fall, gather, slay · To what, where: company, dinner, prisoners
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 (prisoners), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fell | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prisoners | det |
| 3 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 company | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 company | det |
| 7 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gathered | aux:pass |
| 10 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 company | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 dinner | case |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gathered | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Duke | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Duke | det |
| 15 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 dinner | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 slew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 slew | cc |
| 18 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 slew | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the prisoners | the company | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on company=Location | ||||
| 2 | gather | past · passive | the company | dinner with the Duke | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at dinner=Asset | ||||
| 3 | slay | past | the prisoners not said here | prisoners = prisoner | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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