Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 96
Never has man served his God with a better will, never since the beginning of the world has there lived a sturdier champion of the faith.
Who acts: man, beginning · What happens: be, not serve, live, begin · To what, where: God, sturdier champion, world
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, beginning), 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 served | advmod |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Never | cop |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 served | nsubj |
| 4 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 God | nmod:poss |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 served | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 will | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 will | det |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 will | amod |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 served | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beginning | punct |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 beginning | advmod |
| 13 | since | since | ADP | _ | 15 beginning | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beginning | det |
| 15 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beginning | nmod |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 lived | aux |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 lived | advmod |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 served | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 champion | det |
| 23 | sturdier | sturdy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 champion | amod |
| 24 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 faith | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 faith | det |
| 27 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 champion | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | never property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not serve | past | man | Marsilas's God | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | live | present · perfect | the beginning of the world | a sturdier champion of the faith | there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme champion=Location | |||
| 4 | begin | the world | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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