Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 8
I am about to die; but I have sold my life at a great price."
Who acts: I · What happens: die, sell · To what, where: life, great price
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 die | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 die | aux |
| 3 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 5 die | mark |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 die | mark |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 sold | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 sold | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sold | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sold | aux |
| 10 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 die | parataxis |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sold | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 price | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 price | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 price | amod |
| 16 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sold | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | sell | present · perfect | I | my life | a great price | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Theme at price=Asset |
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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