Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 36
After supper the King commanded that the Twelve Peers should watch Mawgis through the night.
Who acts: King, Twelve Peers · What happens: command, watch · To what, where: Mawgis · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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 (King, Twelve Peers), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 supper | case |
| 2 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 commanded | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 commanded | nsubj |
| 5 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 watch | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Peers | det |
| 8 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Peers | nummod |
| 9 | Peers | Peer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 watch | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 watch | aux |
| 11 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 commanded | advcl |
| 12 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 watch | obj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watch | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | the King | after supper | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | watch | should | the Twelve Peers | Mawgis | night | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mawgis=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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