Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 87
Never was there such a horse in the world, save only Bucephalus, that was the horse of Alexander of Macedon.
Who acts: you, that · What happens: not be, save, be · To what, where: Bucephalus, horse
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 there | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 save | advmod |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 horse | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 there | parataxis |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 horse | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
| 11 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 Bucephalus | advmod |
| 13 | Bucephalus | Bucephalus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 save | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 horse | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 horse | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 horse | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 horse | det |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Bucephalus | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Alexander | case |
| 20 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 horse | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Macedon | case |
| 22 | Macedon | Macedon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Alexander | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | such horse in the world parataxis; there property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | save | imperative | you not said here | Bucephalus | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucephalus=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | that | the horse | of Alexander of Macedon | 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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