Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 26
There is a romance of "Ferumbras," for instance, which gives substantially the same tale as that which occupies eleven chapters in this volume. "
Who acts: romance, instance, same tale, Ferumbras · What happens: be, give, occupy, romance · To what, where: same tale, eleven chapters, volume
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 (romance, instance, same tale, Ferumbras), 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 | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 romance | det |
| 4 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Ferumbras | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ferumbras | punct |
| 7 | Ferumbras | Ferumbras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 romance | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 instance | case |
| 11 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gives | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 gives | nsubj |
| 14 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 instance | acl:relcl |
| 15 | substantially | substantially | ADV | _ | 18 tale | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tale | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tale | amod |
| 18 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gives | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 that | case |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 tale | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 occupies | nsubj |
| 22 | occupies | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tale | acl:relcl |
| 23 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 chapters | nummod |
| 24 | chapters | chapter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 occupies | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 volume | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 volume | det |
| 27 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 occupies | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a romance of Ferumbras | there | for instance | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | present | instance | the same tale | as that | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | |||
| 3 | occupy | present | the same tale | eleven chapters | this volume | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus chapter=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | romance | Ferumbras | nom romance «state 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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