Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 55
The day being now far spent, they sat down to supper, and made good cheer.
Who acts: comrades · What happens: spend, sit down, make · To what, where: good cheer
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comrades), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 spent | aux:pass |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 spent | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 spent | advmod |
| 6 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sat | nsubj |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spent | advcl |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 sat | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 supper | case |
| 12 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 spent | advcl |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cheer | amod |
| 17 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | gerund · passive | now; day | far property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | comrades = comrade | to supper | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | good cheer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cheer=Product |
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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