Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 84
The Archbishop, on his part, spake words of comfort to his people. "
What happens: word · To what, where: Archbishop, comfort
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Archbishop | det |
| 2 | Archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 part | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 part | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 part | nmod:poss |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Archbishop | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 words | punct |
| 8 | spake | speak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Archbishop | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 comfort | case |
| 11 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 words | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 people | nmod:poss |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 comfort | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Archbishop | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Archbishop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | word | comfort to victory's people | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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