Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 31
Of a truth he is one of the Frenchmen that are shut up in the Tower yonder.
Who acts: Duke · What happens: be, shut up · To what, where: one, Frenchmen, Tower
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 (Duke), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 truth | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 truth | det |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 one | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Frenchmen | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Frenchmen | det |
| 9 | Frenchmen | frenchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 shut | aux:pass |
| 12 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Frenchmen | acl:relcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 shut | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Tower | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Tower | det |
| 16 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shut | obl |
| 17 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 12 shut | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Duke | one | of a truth; of the Frenchmen | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shut up | present · passive | the Frenchmen | the Tower | yonder property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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