Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 112
Thereupon there was great tumult and quarrelling, and there would have been bloodshed had not the King been there. "
Who acts: King · What happens: bloodsh, not be
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 there | cop |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tumult | amod |
| 5 | tumult | tumult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 quarrelling | cc |
| 7 | quarrelling | quarrelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tumult | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bloodshed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bloodshed | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 bloodshed | expl |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bloodshed | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bloodshed | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 bloodshed | aux:pass |
| 14 | bloodshed | bloodsh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 was | conj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 there | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 there | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 there | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 there | nsubj |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 there | cop |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 there | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloodsh | would · perfect · passive | King not said here | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past · perfect | King | there property | 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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