Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 99
But after certain days, the provisions being all consumed, the famine was as sore as it had been at the first.
Who acts: famine · What happens: consume, be · To what, where: provisions
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 consumed | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 consumed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 days | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 provisions | det |
| 7 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 consumed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 consumed | aux:pass |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 consumed | advmod |
| 10 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sore | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 famine | det |
| 13 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sore | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sore | cop |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 sore | advmod |
| 16 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 consumed | parataxis |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 first | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 first | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 first | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 first | cop |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 first | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 first | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 sore | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 consumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consume | gerund · passive | the provisions | day | all property | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | |||
| 2 | is | past | the famine | sore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | famine | first property | 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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