Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 86
But of more avail than all these multitudes was a certain magician, by name Mahon.
What happens: be · To what, where: certain magician
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 magician | cc |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 avail | case |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 avail | amod |
| 4 | avail | avail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 magician | obl |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 multitudes | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 multitudes | det:predet |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 multitudes | det |
| 8 | multitudes | multitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 avail | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 magician | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 magician | det |
| 11 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 magician | amod |
| 12 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 name | case |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 magician | conj |
| 16 | Mahon | Mahon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 name | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 magician | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a certain magician and name | of more avail than all multitudes; name conj | 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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