Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 48
Oliver had lost so much of his blood that he could not any more see clearly or know who it was that was near him.
Who acts: Oliver · What happens: lose, not any, see, know, be · To what, where: Oliver · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver), 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 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 blood | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 blood | nmod:poss |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 much | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 any | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 any | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 any | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 any | advmod |
| 13 | any | any | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 much | advcl |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 any | xcomp |
| 16 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 15 see | advmod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 know | cc |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 any | conj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 him | nsubj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 him | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 him | cop |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 him | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 him | cop |
| 24 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 know | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect · passive | Oliver | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not any | could | Oliver | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Oliver not said here | clearly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | know | infinitive | Oliver not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | near Oliver; who nsubj; blood nsubj; that nsubj | 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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