Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 85
Never had such a Yuletide been kept in the land of France.
What happens: not have, keep · To what, where: Yuletide, land
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 had | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 kept | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kept | det |
| 5 | Yuletide | Yuletide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 kept | aux:pass |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 France | case |
| 12 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 land | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | keep | participle · passive | Yuletide | the land of France | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in land=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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