Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 57
Now there was never man on earth who has given me such trouble of mind as have you.
Who acts: man, earth · What happens: be, give, have, trouble · To what, where: such trouble, me, mind as
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, earth), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | advcl |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 man | advmod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | nsubj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 given | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 earth | acl:relcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 given | iobj |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 trouble | amod |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 as | case |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 as | compound |
| 16 | as | a | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 trouble | nmod |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | man on earth not said here | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | present · perfect | earth | such trouble of mind as | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient trouble=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | present | man on earth | you nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | trouble | mind as | nom trouble «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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