Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 1
Balan, who was admiral of the Moors in Spain, had a son, Fierabras by name, who was the most marvellous giant that ever was born of woman.
Who acts: Balan, name · What happens: be, have, bear · To what, where: admiral, son, marvellous giant
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balan, name), 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 | Balan | Balan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 admiral | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 admiral | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 admiral | cop |
| 5 | admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Balan | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Moors | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Moors | det |
| 8 | Moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 admiral | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Spain | case |
| 10 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Moors | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Balan | punct |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fierabras | punct |
| 16 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | appos |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 name | case |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 giant | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 giant | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 giant | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 giant | det |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 marvellous | advmod |
| 24 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 giant | amod |
| 25 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 name | appos |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 born | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 born | advmod |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 born | aux:pass |
| 29 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 giant | acl:relcl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 woman | case |
| 31 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 born | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Balan | admiral | of the Moors in Spain | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | Balan | a son | by name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 3 | is a | past | name | the marvellous giant | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bear | past · passive | the marvellous giant | ever | of woman | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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