Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 84
His life was well-nigh spent. "
What happens: spend · To what, where: life
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: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 life | nmod:poss |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spent | aux:pass |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 spent | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 7 spent | advmod |
| 7 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spent | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past · passive | Roland's life | nigh, well property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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