Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 44
But the other masons grew jealous of him, because that he was much better and stronger than they.
Who acts: other masons, Reynaud · What happens: grow, be
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Reynaud's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other masons, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 grew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 masons | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 masons | amod |
| 4 | masons | mason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 jealous | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 better | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 better | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 because | fixed |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 better | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 better | cop |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 better | advmod |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 grew | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stronger | cc |
| 17 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 better | conj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 they | case |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 better | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the other masons | jealous property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Reynaud | than pennies = penny; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Reynaud not said here | 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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