Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 126
As they sat, the Duke came in from his hawking, and said "Who are these men that are so strange to look upon?" "
Who acts: sons, Duke · What happens: sit, come in, say, be, look · To what, where: hawking · 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 (sons, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 sat | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Duke | det |
| 6 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 hawking | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hawking | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hawking | hawking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 strange | punct |
| 16 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 strange | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 strange | cop |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 men | det |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 strange | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 strange | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 strange | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 strange | advmod |
| 23 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 look | mark |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 strange | xcomp |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 look | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 strange | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 strange | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | sons = son | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come in | past | the Duke | dinner's hawking | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hawking=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the Duke not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Who nsubj; this men nsubj; that nsubj; strange property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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