Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 43
This done, they sat down to play at the tables, and at chess, and at other games.
Who acts: Peers · What happens: do, sit down, play · To what, where: This, other games, tables
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 (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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sat | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 sat | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 play | mark |
| 8 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sat | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 tables | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tables | det |
| 11 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 play | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 chess | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 chess | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 chess | case |
| 15 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 games | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 games | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 games | case |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 games | amod |
| 20 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sat | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sit down | past | Peers = peer | other games | chess conj; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at game=Location | |||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | Peers = peer not said here | the tables | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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