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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 110

Now the Duke Aymon chanced to be hawking that day by the river, and the Duchess was in her chamber, where she was wont to sit, in much grief because she had no tidings of her children.

Who acts: Duke Aymon, Duchess, townsfolk · What happens: chance, hawk, be, sit, have · To what, where: chamber, much grief, tidings

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 Aymon, Duchess, townsfolk), 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

advmoddetcompoundnsubjmarkauxadvcldetobjcasedetoblpunctccdetnsubjcopcasenmod:possparataxispunctadvmodnsubjcopconjmarkxcomppunctcaseamodoblmarknsubjadvcldetobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootNowADVtheDETDukePROPNAymonPROPNchancedVERBtoPARTbeAUXhawkingVERBthatDETdayNOUNbyADPtheDETriverNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETDuchessPROPNwasAUXinADPherPRONchamberNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVshePRONwasAUXwontADJtoPARTsitVERB,PUNCTinADPmuchADJgriefNOUNbecauseSCONJshePRONhadVERBnoDETtidingsNOUNofADPherPRONchildrenNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem5 chancedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Aymondet
3DukeDukePROPNNumber=Sing4 Aymoncompound
4AymonAymonPROPNNumber=Sing5 chancednsubj
5chancedchanceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6totoPART_8 hawkingmark
7bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf8 hawkingaux
8hawkinghawkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 chancedadvcl
9thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem10 daydet
10daydayNOUNNumber=Sing8 hawkingobj
11bybyADP_13 rivercase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 riverdet
13riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing8 hawkingobl
14,,PUNCT_21 chamberpunct
15andandCCONJ_21 chambercc
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Duchessdet
17DuchessDuchessPROPNNumber=Sing21 chambernsubj
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 chambercop
19ininADP_21 chambercase
20herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 chambernmod:poss
21chamberchamberNOUNNumber=Sing5 chancedparataxis
22,,PUNCT_26 wontpunct
23wherewhereADVPronType=Rel26 wontadvmod
24sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 wontnsubj
25wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 wontcop
26wontwontADJDegree=Pos21 chamberconj
27totoPART_28 sitmark
28sitsitVERBVerbForm=Inf26 wontxcomp
29,,PUNCT_32 griefpunct
30ininADP_32 griefcase
31muchmuchADJDegree=Pos32 griefamod
32griefgriefNOUNNumber=Sing28 sitobl
33becausebecauseSCONJ_35 hadmark
34sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 hadnsubj
35hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 sitadvcl
36nonoDETPronType=Neg37 tidingsdet
37tidingstidingNOUNNumber=Plur35 hadobj
38ofofADP_40 childrencase
39herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs40 childrennmod:poss
40childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur37 tidingsnmod
41..PUNCT_5 chancedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1chancepastthe Duke Aymonnowvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2hawkto-infinitive · progressivethe Duke Aymon not said heredayby the rivervn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3ispastthe Duchesstownsfolk's chambertownsfolk nmod:posstree rules
4ispasttownsfolkwont propertytree rules
5sitto-infinitivetownsfolk not said heremuch griefvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grief=Location
6havepasttownsfolkno tidings of townsfolk's childrenvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiding=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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