Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 31
I hope that they have not lost their life and colour and human interest.
Who acts: I, ROMANCES · What happens: hope, not lose · To what, where: life · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 lost | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lost | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 lost | advmod |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 hope | ccomp |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 colour | cc |
| 11 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 life | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 interest | cc |
| 13 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 interest | amod |
| 14 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 life | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not lose | present · perfect | ROMANCES = romance | ROMANCES's life and colour and human interest | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality |
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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