Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 20
There could not be a more curious instance of this than is to be found in the story of the death of Roland.
Who acts: curious instance, Roland · What happens: not be, find, instance, die · To what, where: story, this
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 (curious instance, Roland), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 be | expl |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 be | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 instance | det |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 curious | advmod |
| 7 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 instance | amod |
| 8 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 be | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 instance | nmod |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 found | mark |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | aux:pass |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 found | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 found | aux:pass |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 instance | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 story | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 story | det |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 death | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 death | det |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 story | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Roland | case |
| 23 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 death | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not can | could | a curious instance of this | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | present · passive | a curious instance of this not said here | the story of the death of Roland | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» | ||||
| 3 | instance | this | nom instance «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | die | Roland | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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