Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 13
Nor were there wanting signs that many people had passed that way.
Who acts: Nor, many people · What happens: want, pass · To what, where: signs
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor, many people), 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 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wanting | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanting | aux |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wanting | advmod |
| 4 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wanting | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 passed | obj |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 passed | aux |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 signs | acl |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past · progressive | Nor | signs | there | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sign=Theme | |||
| 2 | pass | past · perfect | many people | signs | that way obl:unmarked | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Trajectory |
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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