Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 25
In the morning every man hears Mass when it is said; they are wont also to give alms to such as are in need.
Who acts: man, tables, alms · What happens: hear, say, be, give · To what, where: Mass, folly, need · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, tables, alms), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hears | obl |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hears | nsubj |
| 6 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Mass | Mass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hears | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 said | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | aux:pass |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hears | advcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 wont | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wont | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wont | cop |
| 15 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hears | parataxis |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 wont | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wont | advcl |
| 19 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 need | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 such | case |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 alms | amod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 such | fixed |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 need | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 need | case |
| 25 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | every man | Mass | morning | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mass=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · passive | folly | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | tables = table | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | tables = table not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is | present | alms | need | tree rules |
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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