Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 17
There be many men better than I that come and go to Paris, and the King has no thought of them, whether it be morning or night.
Who acts: many men, I, King, thought · What happens: be, come, go, have, think · To what, where: Paris, thought, morning, jest
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many men, I, King, thought), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 better | expl |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 better | cop |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 better | nsubj |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Paris | case |
| 13 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 has | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 has | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 has | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 thought | det |
| 20 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 morning | punct |
| 24 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 27 morning | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 morning | nsubj |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 morning | cop |
| 27 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | obl |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 night | cc |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 morning | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | many men | there | good property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | present | I | that nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | present | I not said here | Paris | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to paris=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | have | present | the King | no thought of jest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is a | infinitive | thought | morning or night | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | think | jest | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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