Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 1
At Pentecost King Charles held a court at Paris to which with others came Duke Aymon and his sons.
Who acts: Duke · What happens: hold, come · To what, where: court, Pentecost Charles
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Charles | case |
| 2 | Pentecost | Pentecost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Charles | compound |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 court | det |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Paris | case |
| 9 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 came | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 others | case |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | obl |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | conj |
| 15 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 16 | Aymon | Aymon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Duke | flat |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sons | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sons | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Duke | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | a court | Pentecost Charles King | at Paris | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent court=Theme at charles=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | Duke and Paris's sons | with others; which obl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to which=Initial_Location |
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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