Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 30
The same process has had to be applied to all before they could be made acceptable to the readers of to-day.
Who acts: same process · What happens: have, apply, make · To what, where: ROMANCES
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 (same process), 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 process | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 process | amod |
| 3 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | aux |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 applied | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 applied | aux:pass |
| 8 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 had | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 applied | obl |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 made | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 applied | advcl |
| 16 | acceptable | acceptable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 made | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 readers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 readers | det |
| 19 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 acceptable | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 to | punct |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 readers | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | the same process | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | apply | to-infinitive · passive | the same process not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | make | could · passive | ROMANCES = romance | acceptable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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