Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 11
I have endeavoured to tell in this volume the story of Charlemagne, the Charlemagne, it must be understood, not of history, but of Romance.
Who acts: I · What happens: endeavour, tell, understand · To what, where: story, volume · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 endeavoured | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 endeavoured | aux |
| 3 | endeavoured | endeavour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 tell | mark |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 endeavoured | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 volume | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 volume | det |
| 8 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Charlemagne | case |
| 12 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 story | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Charlemagne | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Charlemagne | det |
| 15 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Charlemagne | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 understood | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 understood | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 understood | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 understood | aux:pass |
| 20 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 endeavoured | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 history | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 history | advmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 history | case |
| 24 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 understood | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Romance | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 Romance | cc |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Romance | case |
| 28 | Romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 endeavoured | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 endeavoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endeavour | present · perfect | I | Romance parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | the story of Charlemagne and the Charlemagne | this volume | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 3 | understand | must · passive | volume | of history | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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