Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 117
And when she thought of her sons, and how she knew not whether they were alive or dead, she wept aloud.
Who acts: mother, sons · What happens: think, not know, be, weep · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mother, sons), 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 thought | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 thought | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sons | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sons | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wept | cc |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 knew | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wept | advcl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 knew | advmod |
| 14 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 17 alive | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 alive | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 alive | cop |
| 17 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 dead | cc |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 alive | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wept | nsubj |
| 22 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 23 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 22 wept | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | mother | of mother's sons | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not know | past | mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | sons = son | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | sons = son not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | weep | past | mother | aloud property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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