Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 4
Russia also he possessed, and Cologne; he was lord, moreover, of Jerusalem, and had possession of the Sepulchre of our Lord.
Who acts: Russia · What happens: possess, lor, have · To what, where: Cologne, Russia, possession, Sepulchre
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 (Russia), 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 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 possessed | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 possessed | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 possessed | nsubj |
| 4 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Cologne | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Cologne | cc |
| 7 | Cologne | Cologne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 possessed | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 lord | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lord | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lord | aux:pass |
| 11 | lord | lor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 possessed | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 moreover | punct |
| 13 | moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 11 lord | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Jerusalem | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Jerusalem | case |
| 16 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lord | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 possessed | conj |
| 20 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Sepulchre | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sepulchre | det |
| 23 | Sepulchre | sepulchre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 possession | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Lord | case |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Sepulchre | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 possessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | past | Russia | Cologne | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | lor | past · passive | Russia | of Jerusalem; moreover property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Russia not said here | possession of the Sepulchre of our Lord | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Patient | ||||
| 4 | possess | the Sepulchre of our Lord | nom possession «act 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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