Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 71
So a great feast was prepared, and they sat down and were right royally entertained.
Who acts: great feast, lords · What happens: be, sit down
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 (great feast, lords), 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 | _ | 6 prepared | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 feast | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feast | amod |
| 4 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prepared | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prepared | cop |
| 6 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sat | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prepared | parataxis |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 sat | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 right | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 right | cop |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sat | conj |
| 15 | royally | royally | ADV | _ | 16 entertained | advmod |
| 16 | entertained | entertained | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 right | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a great feast | prepared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | lords = lord | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | lords = lord not said here | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | lords = lord not said here | royally property | tree rules |
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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