Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 128
Never priest that sang mass was so sturdy a warrior as he.
Who acts: priest · What happens: sing, not be · To what, where: mass
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 (priest), 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 | 8 sturdy | advmod |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sturdy | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 priest | acl:relcl |
| 5 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | obj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sturdy | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 sturdy | advmod |
| 8 | sturdy | sturdy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 warrior | det |
| 10 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sturdy | nsubj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 he | case |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 warrior | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sturdy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | priest | mass | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | priest | a warrior as warrior nsubj; sturdy property | 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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