Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 52
I have not had time to draw it; I was so busy with striking."
Who acts: I · What happens: not have, draw, be, strike · To what, where: staff
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 had | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 draw | mark |
| 7 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 draw | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 busy | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 busy | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 busy | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 busy | advmod |
| 13 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | conj |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 striking | mark |
| 15 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 busy | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present · perfect | I | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | draw | to-infinitive | I not said here | staff | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | I | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | strike | gerund | I not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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