Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 18
They began to write when the air was full of the crusading spirit, and their work is coloured accordingly.
Who acts: Frenchmen, air · What happens: begin, write, be, crusade, colour, work · To what, where: work
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 (Frenchmen, air), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 write | mark |
| 4 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 full | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 full | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 full | cop |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 write | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 spirit | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spirit | det |
| 12 | crusading | crusade | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 spirit | amod |
| 13 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 full | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 coloured | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 coloured | cc |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 work | nmod:poss |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coloured | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 coloured | aux:pass |
| 19 | coloured | colour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 began | conj |
| 20 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 19 coloured | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Frenchmen = frenchman | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | write | to-infinitive | Frenchmen = frenchman not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the air | of the crusading spirit; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | crusade | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | colour | present · passive | Frenchmen's work | accordingly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | work | Frenchmen = frenchman | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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