Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 89
They are no thieves or murderers, or traitors, but as good and true knights as are in all the world."
Who acts: children, thieves · What happens: be · To what, where: thieves, world
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 (children, thieves), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thieves | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thieves | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 thieves | det |
| 4 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 world | nsubj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 murderers | cc |
| 6 | murderers | murderer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thieves | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 traitors | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 traitors | cc |
| 9 | traitors | traitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thieves | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knights | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 knights | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 knights | case |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 knights | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 true | cc |
| 15 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 good | conj |
| 16 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thieves | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 knights | case |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 world | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 world | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 world | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 world | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | children = child | no thieves or murderers or traitors but good knights | murderers conj; traitors conj; good knights conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | no thieves or murderers or traitors but good knights | all world | 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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