Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 122
What a gallant knight he had been, were he but a Christian man!
Who acts: gallant knight · What happens: be · To what, where: Christian man
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gallant knight), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 knight | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 knight | det |
| 3 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knight | amod |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 been | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 been | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 knight | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knight | punct |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | cop |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 man | nsubj |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 man | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | what gallant knight | a Christian man | hair nsubj | tree rules |
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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