Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 16
The real Charlemagne was a very great personality, one that impressed his age as deeply as any man has ever done; in these stories he often appears petty, capricious, and obstinate.
Who acts: real Charlemagne, great personality, man, CHARLEMAGNE · What happens: be, impress, do, appear · To what, where: great personality, age, petty, stories
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 (real Charlemagne, great personality, man, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Charlemagne | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Charlemagne | amod |
| 3 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 personality | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 personality | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 personality | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 great | advmod |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 personality | amod |
| 8 | personality | personality | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 personality | appos |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 impressed | nsubj |
| 12 | impressed | impress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 personality | acl:relcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 age | nmod:poss |
| 14 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 impressed | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 deeply | advmod |
| 16 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 12 impressed | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 done | mark |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 done | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 done | aux |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 done | advmod |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 impressed | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 appears | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 stories | case |
| 25 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 stories | det |
| 26 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 appears | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 appears | nsubj |
| 28 | often | often | ADV | _ | 29 appears | advmod |
| 29 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 personality | parataxis |
| 30 | petty | petty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 appears | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 capricious | punct |
| 32 | capricious | capricious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 petty | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 obstinate | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 obstinate | cc |
| 35 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 appears | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 personality | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the real Charlemagne | a great personality | one appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | impress | past | a great personality | CHARLEMAGNE's age | deeply property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus age=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | any man | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | appear | present | CHARLEMAGNE | petty | this stories | often property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location petty=Theme |
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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