Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 70
We are true men and faithful, nor have we ever been aught else, nor will be.
Who acts: We · What happens: be, have · To what, where: true men, aught
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 men | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 men | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 faithful | cc |
| 6 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 have | cc |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 men | parataxis |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 aught | nsubj |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 aught | advmod |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 aught | cop |
| 13 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 9 have | obj |
| 14 | else | else | ADV | _ | 13 aught | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 be | punct |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 be | cc |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | aux |
| 18 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | We | true men | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | We not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | participle | we | aught | ever | else property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | be | future | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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