Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 85
There were precious herbs also which availed to cure all manner of sickness and maladies, save only the malady of death.
Who acts: precious herbs · What happens: be, avail, cure, save · To what, where: manner, malady
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 (precious herbs), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 herbs | amod |
| 4 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 availed | nsubj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 availed | advmod |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 availed | nsubj |
| 7 | availed | avail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cure | mark |
| 9 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 availed | xcomp |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 manner | det |
| 11 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cure | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sickness | case |
| 13 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 manner | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 maladies | cc |
| 15 | maladies | malady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sickness | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 save | punct |
| 17 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cure | conj |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 malady | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 malady | det |
| 20 | malady | malady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 save | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 malady | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | avail | past | precious herbs | which nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cure | to-infinitive | precious herbs not said here | all manner of sickness and maladies | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer manner=Source | ||||
| 4 | save | infinitive | precious herbs not said here | the malady of death | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent malady=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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