Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 34
The death of the great King is only mentioned as imminent in the romance which I have followed; I have added an abridged account of it from the contemporary biography written by Eginhard.
Who acts: I, great King · What happens: mention, follow, add, abridge, write, die · To what, where: death, romance, abridged account, contemporary biography
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, great King), 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 | 2 death | det |
| 2 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 King | amod |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 death | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 mentioned | advmod |
| 9 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 imminent | case |
| 11 | imminent | imminent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mentioned | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 romance | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 romance | det |
| 14 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 imminent | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 followed | aux |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 romance | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 added | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 added | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 added | aux |
| 22 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 mentioned | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 account | det |
| 24 | abridged | abridge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 account | amod |
| 25 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 added | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 account | nmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 biography | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 biography | det |
| 30 | contemporary | contemporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 biography | amod |
| 31 | biography | biography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 added | obl |
| 32 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 biography | acl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 Eginhard | case |
| 34 | Eginhard | Eginhard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 written | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mentioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | present · passive | the death of the great King | imminent property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | follow | present · perfect · passive | the romance | I nsubj:pass | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | present · perfect | I | a abridged account of death | the contemporary biography | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Patient | |||
| 4 | abridge | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | write | participle | the contemporary biography not said here | by Eginhard | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | die | the great King | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | account | death | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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