Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 113
I was at the building of this place many years ago, when I was but a young child.
Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: building, young child
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | 5 building | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 building | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 building | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 building | det |
| 5 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 building | nmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 years | amod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 place | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 child | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 child | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 child | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 child | cop |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 child | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 child | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 child | amod |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 building | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 building | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | the building but a young child | of this place | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | I | a young child | tree rules |
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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