Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 53
In the castle the famine was so sore that Reynaud and his people could scarcely keep life in them.
Who acts: famine, Reynaud · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: castle, life
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 (famine, Reynaud), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 castle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 castle | det |
| 3 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sore | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 famine | det |
| 5 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sore | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sore | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 sore | advmod |
| 8 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 10 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 people | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 people | nmod:poss |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Reynaud | conj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 keep | aux |
| 15 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 16 keep | advmod |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sore | advcl |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the famine | the castle | sore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | could | Reynaud and Reynaud's people | life | in lives = life; scarcely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent life=Theme in they=Location |
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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