Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 15
Charlemagne suffers by comparison with Roland and Reynaud very much as, in the Iliad, Agamemnon, the overlord of the Greeks, suffers by comparison with the subordinate King, Achilles.
Who acts: Charlemagne · What happens: suffer · To what, where: Iliad
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 (Charlemagne), 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 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 suffers | nsubj |
| 2 | suffers | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 comparison | case |
| 4 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 suffers | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Roland | case |
| 6 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 comparison | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Reynaud | cc |
| 8 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Roland | conj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 as | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 2 suffers | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Iliad | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Iliad | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Iliad | det |
| 15 | Iliad | Iliad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 suffers | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Agamemnon | punct |
| 17 | Agamemnon | Agamemnon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Iliad | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 overlord | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 overlord | det |
| 20 | overlord | overlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Iliad | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Greeks | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Greeks | det |
| 23 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 overlord | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 suffers | punct |
| 25 | suffers | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 suffers | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 comparison | case |
| 27 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 suffers | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 subordinate | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 subordinate | det |
| 30 | subordinate | subordinate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 comparison | nmod |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 subordinate | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Achilles | punct |
| 33 | Achilles | Achilles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 King | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 suffers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | present | Charlemagne | the Iliad | by comparison with Roland and Reynaud | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | suffer | present | Charlemagne not said here | by comparison with the subordinate | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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