Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 64
There was not upon earth a more sorrowful man than he. "
Who acts: sorrowful man · What happens: be
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 (sorrowful man), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 man | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 earth | case |
| 5 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 sorrowful | advmod |
| 8 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 he | case |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 man | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a sorrowful man upon earth than Charles | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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