Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 77
Such goodly knights they were, and so dear to him, and now they were gone.
Who acts: Such goodly knights, knights · What happens: be · To what, where: Roland
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such goodly knights, knights), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knights | amod |
| 2 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knights | amod |
| 3 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dear | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dear | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dear | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dear | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dear | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 dear | advmod |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dear | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gone | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gone | cc |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 gone | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gone | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gone | cop |
| 17 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dear | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Such goodly knights | Roland | knights = knight nsubj; dear property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | knights = knight | now | gone property | 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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