Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 52
There was not one that knew the man, or had so much as heard the name.
Who acts: that · What happens: not be, know, have, hear · To what, where: one, man, much, name
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 (that), 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 | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 knew | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knew | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 knew | conj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 heard | mark |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 much | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 name | det |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | that not said here | one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | that | the man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | that not said here | much | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | that not said here | the name | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
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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