Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 55
Then he bethought him of a certain herb that he had brought from overseas.
Who acts: King · What happens: bethink, bring · To what, where: man
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), 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 bethought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bethought | nsubj |
| 3 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bethought | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 herb | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 herb | det |
| 7 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 herb | amod |
| 8 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bethought | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 brought | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | aux |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 bethought | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 overseas | case |
| 14 | overseas | overseas | ADV | _ | 12 brought | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bethought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bethink | past | King | man | then | of a certain herb | tree rules | ||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect | King | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from overseas=Initial_Location |
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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