Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 122
Then she looked about her, and knew her other sons also, and took them one by one in her arms, both rejoicing and lamenting.
Who acts: Duchess · What happens: look, know, take, rejoice, lament · To what, where: other sons, sons
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 (Duchess), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 knew | cc |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sons | amod |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 knew | obj |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 knew | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 one | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 arms | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 arms | nmod:poss |
| 22 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rejoicing | punct |
| 24 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 25 rejoicing | cc:preconj |
| 25 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 took | advcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lamenting | cc |
| 27 | lamenting | lament | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 rejoicing | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Duchess | then | about mother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | past | Duchess not said here | Duchess's other sons | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Duchess not said here | sons = son | one obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument they=Theme one=Destination | |||
| 4 | rejoice | gerund | Duchess not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | lament | gerund | Duchess not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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