Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 114
Then Mawgis lighted down from him, and greeted the brethren most lovingly.
What happens: light down, greet · To what, where: brethren
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 lighted | advmod |
| 2 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lighted | compound |
| 3 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 lighted | compound:prt |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lighted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 greeted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 greeted | cc |
| 9 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lighted | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brethren | det |
| 11 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 greeted | obj |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 lovingly | advmod |
| 13 | lovingly | lovingly | ADV | _ | 9 greeted | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light down | participle | then | from Ogier; Mawgis compound | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent from he=Material | ||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | past | the brethren | lovingly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brethren=Theme |
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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