Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 48
He could have borne seven knights in armour, and never sweated a drop; as for swimming rivers, there never was beast like him.
Who acts: Duke · What happens: bear, not sweate, swim, not be · To what, where: seven knights, armour, drop, beast
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 borne | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 borne | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 borne | aux |
| 4 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 knights | nummod |
| 6 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 borne | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 armour | case |
| 8 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 borne | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sweated | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sweated | cc |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 sweated | advmod |
| 12 | sweated | sweate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 borne | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 drop | det |
| 14 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sweated | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 rivers | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 19 rivers | case |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 as | fixed |
| 18 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 rivers | amod |
| 19 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sweated | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 beast | punct |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 beast | expl |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 beast | advmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 beast | cop |
| 24 | beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 borne | obl |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 beast | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 borne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | could · perfect | Duke | seven knights | armour | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Patient | |||
| 2 | not sweate | past | Duke not said here | a drop | as swimming rivers | tree rules | |||
| 3 | swim | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | not is a | past | beast | there | like Duke | 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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