Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 70
Never did better weapon hang by my side or by the side of any man living upon earth."
Who acts: better weapon, man · What happens: not hang, live · To what, where: earth
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 (better weapon, man), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 hang | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hang | aux |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 weapon | amod |
| 4 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hang | nsubj |
| 5 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 side | nmod:poss |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hang | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 side | cc |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 side | nmod |
| 16 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 man | acl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 earth | case |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 living | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hang | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hang | past · do-support | better weapon | by my side or the side of any man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | any man not said here | earth | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location |
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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