Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 24
The Charlemagne romances, as translated by Lord Berners and William Caxton, occupy twelve volumes in the Extra Series of the Early English Text Society.
Who acts: Charlemagne romances · What happens: translate, occupy · To what, where: Charlemagne romances, twelve volumes, Extra Series
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 romances), 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 romances | det |
| 2 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 romances | compound |
| 3 | romances | romance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 occupy | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 translated | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 translated | mark |
| 6 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 romances | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Lord | case |
| 8 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 translated | obl |
| 9 | Berners | Berners | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lord | flat |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 William | cc |
| 11 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lord | conj |
| 12 | Caxton | Caxton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 William | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 romances | punct |
| 14 | occupy | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 volumes | nummod |
| 16 | volumes | volume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 occupy | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Series | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Series | det |
| 19 | Extra | Extra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Series | compound |
| 20 | Series | Series | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 occupy | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Society | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Society | det |
| 23 | Early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Society | amod |
| 24 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Text | compound |
| 25 | Text | Text | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Society | compound |
| 26 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Series | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 occupy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate | participle | the Charlemagne romances not said here | by Lord and William | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | occupy | present | the Charlemagne romances | twelve volumes | the Extra Series of the Early Text Society | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus volume=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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