Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 91
Never did he feel a greater sorrow for comrade slain, save Oliver only. "
Who acts: heart · What happens: not feel, save · To what, where: greater sorrow, Oliver
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 (heart), 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 | 4 feel | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sorrow | det |
| 6 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 sorrow | amod |
| 7 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 slain | case |
| 9 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slain | compound |
| 10 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sorrow | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 save | punct |
| 12 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 feel | conj |
| 13 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 save | obj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 save | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | past · do-support | heart | a greater sorrow | for comrade slain | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sorrow=Location for slain=Theme | |||
| 2 | save | infinitive | heart not said here | Oliver | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oliver=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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