Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 144
The next day, just as they were about to depart, came Mawgis their cousin, telling of how he had taken three horses of the King, laden with gold and silver. "
Who acts: sons, Mawgis, cousin · What happens: be, depart, come, tell, take, lade · To what, where: next day, three horses · 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, Mawgis, cousin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 about | punct |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 about | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 about | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 about | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 about | cop |
| 9 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 depart | mark |
| 11 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 about | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 telling | punct |
| 18 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 came | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 taken | mark |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 taken | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 taken | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 taken | aux |
| 23 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 telling | ccomp |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 horses | nummod |
| 25 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 taken | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 King | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 King | det |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 horses | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 laden | punct |
| 30 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 horses | acl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 gold | case |
| 32 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 laden | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 silver | cc |
| 34 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gold | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sons = son | the next day not said here | about property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | depart | to-infinitive | sons = son not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Mawgis | day | sons's cousin nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Mawgis not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take | past · perfect | cousin | three horses of the King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | ||||
| 6 | lade | participle | three horses of the King not said here | with gold and silver | tree rules |
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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