Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 49
After a while there came to be a great famine in Montalban, so that a man could not buy food for silver or gold, and not a few perished with hunger.
Who acts: man · What happens: come, be, not buy, perish · To what, where: great famine, Montalban, food
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 (man), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 famine | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 famine | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 famine | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 famine | amod |
| 10 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Montalban | case |
| 12 | Montalban | Montalban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 famine | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 buy | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 buy | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 buy | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buy | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 buy | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 buy | advmod |
| 20 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | conj |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buy | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 silver | case |
| 23 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buy | obl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 gold | cc |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 silver | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 perished | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 perished | cc |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 few | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 few | det |
| 30 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 perished | amod |
| 31 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | parataxis |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 hunger | case |
| 33 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 perished | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | there | while | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a great famine | Montalban | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not buy | could | a man | food | for silver or gold | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for silver=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | perish | participle | with hunger | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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