Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 78
Then he and his brethren and Herneger the traitor sat down to supper and made good cheer.
Who acts: opportunity · What happens: sit down, make · To what, where: good cheer
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 (opportunity), 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 | 10 sat | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brethren | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 he | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Herneger | cc |
| 7 | Herneger | Herneger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 he | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 traitor | det |
| 9 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 sat | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 supper | case |
| 13 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sat | conj |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cheer | amod |
| 17 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | opportunity | then | to supper; the traitor nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | make | past | opportunity not said here | good cheer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cheer=Product |
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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