Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 56
And this was the way these two friends parted at the last.
Who acts: this · What happens: be, part · To what, where: way, two friends, last
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 (this), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 way | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 way | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 friends | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 friends | nummod |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 way | parataxis |
| 9 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 friends | acl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 last | det |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 parted | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | the way | this two friends parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | part | participle | this two friends not said here | the last | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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