Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 13
Each writer of a romance had naturally a hero of his own.
To what, where: hero
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: 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 writer | det |
| 2 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hero | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 romance | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 romance | det |
| 5 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 writer | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hero | aux |
| 7 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 9 hero | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hero | det |
| 9 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 own | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 own | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hero | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hero | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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