Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 9
The Admiral was his nephew, and loved him greatly, trusting him so that he made him warder of the bridge and ruler of all the countryside.
Who acts: Admiral, nephew, Gallafer · What happens: be, love, trust, make · To what, where: nephew, Gallafer, warder, devil
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Admiral, nephew, Gallafer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Admiral | det |
| 2 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nephew | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nephew | cop |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 loved | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 loved | cc |
| 8 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nephew | acl:relcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 loved | obj |
| 10 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 8 loved | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trusting | punct |
| 12 | trusting | trust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 loved | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 trusting | obj |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 made | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 trusting | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | obj |
| 19 | warder | warder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 bridge | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bridge | det |
| 22 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 warder | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ruler | cc |
| 24 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 warder | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 countryside | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 countryside | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 countryside | det |
| 28 | countryside | countryside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ruler | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 nephew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Admiral | Gallafer's nephew | Gallafer nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | love | past | Gallafer's nephew not said here | Gallafer | greatly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | trust | gerund | Gallafer's nephew not said here | Gallafer | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Gallafer | warder of the bridge and ruler of all countryside | devil | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary warder=Product |
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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