Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 120
Four hundred ships he had, and there was not a sailor but complained of his robberies.
Who acts: hundred ships, next · What happens: have, not be, complain, rob · To what, where: sailor
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred ships, next), 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 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 ships | nummod |
| 3 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sailor | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sailor | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 sailor | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sailor | det |
| 12 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 complained | cc |
| 14 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 robberies | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 robberies | nmod:poss |
| 17 | robberies | robbery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 complained | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | hundred ships | next nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | a sailor | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | complain speech: other | past | hundred ships not said here | of next's robberies | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | rob | next | nom robbery «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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