Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 56
Tis such strokes as this that makes the Emperor love us."
Who acts: such strokes, Emperor · What happens: make, love · To what, where: Emperor, such strokes
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 (such strokes, Emperor), 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 | Tis | ti | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 strokes | nsubj |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 strokes | amod |
| 3 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 strokes | nmod |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 strokes | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Emperor | det |
| 9 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | obj |
| 10 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strokes | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 strokes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | such strokes Tis as this | the Emperor | us xcomp | tree rules | |||
| 2 | love | present | the Emperor not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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