Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 88
Never was there a man who dealt with the heathen with mightier blows or weightier discourse.
Who acts: man · What happens: not be, deal
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 (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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 there | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 there | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 dealt | nsubj |
| 7 | dealt | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 heathen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heathen | det |
| 10 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dealt | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 blows | case |
| 12 | mightier | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 blows | amod |
| 13 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heathen | nmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 discourse | cc |
| 15 | weightier | weighty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 discourse | amod |
| 16 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blows | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | a man | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deal | past | a man | with the heathen with mightier blows or weightier discourse | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with heathen=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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