Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 3
This Fierabras was King of Alexandria, and ruled the whole land of Babylon from the Red Sea eastwards.
Who acts: Fierabras King · What happens: be, rule · To what, where: Fierabras King, whole land, Sea eastwards
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 (Fierabras King), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Fierabras | det |
| 2 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | compound |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 King | cop |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ruled | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Alexandria | case |
| 6 | Alexandria | Alexandria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ruled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ruled | cc |
| 9 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 land | amod |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ruled | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Babylon | case |
| 14 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 land | nmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 eastwards | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eastwards | det |
| 17 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Sea | compound |
| 18 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 eastwards | compound |
| 19 | eastwards | eastward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ruled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Fierabras King | of Alexandria | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rule | past | Fierabras King | the whole land of Babylon | the Sea eastwards | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
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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