Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 2
So having bidden farewell to his sister Clare, Reynaud's wife, he sought a certain Abbey, and there took a monk's habit.
Who acts: John · What happens: bid, seek, take · To what, where: farewell, certain Abbey, habit
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 bidden | advmod |
| 2 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 bidden | aux |
| 3 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bidden | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sister | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bidden | obl |
| 8 | Clare | Clare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sister | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wife | punct |
| 10 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Reynaud | case |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Clare | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sought | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sought | nsubj |
| 15 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bidden | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Abbey | det |
| 17 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Abbey | amod |
| 18 | Abbey | Abbey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sought | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 took | expl |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sought | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 monk | det |
| 24 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 habit | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 monk | case |
| 26 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | gerund · perfect | farewell | to John's sister | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | John | a certain Abbey | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abbey=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | John not said here | a monk's habit | there | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=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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