Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 91
These things finished, the Admiral and his chief lords, with the Frenchmen, sat down to dinner.
Who acts: things · What happens: finish, sit down · To what, where: things
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 things | det |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 things | acl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Admiral | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Admiral | det |
| 6 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 things | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lords | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lords | nmod:poss |
| 9 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lords | amod |
| 10 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 things | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Frenchmen | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Frenchmen | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Frenchmen | det |
| 14 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 things | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 things | punct |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 sat | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 dinner | case |
| 19 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | participle | this things with the Frenchmen and the Admiral and Admiral's chief lords not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sit down | past | this things with the Frenchmen and the Admiral and Admiral's chief lords | to dinner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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