Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 124
A gallant knight also was the Prince Malprime, his son. "
What happens: be · To what, where: Malprime, gallant knight
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 2 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knight | amod |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 Malprime | advmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Malprime | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Malprime | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Malprime | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Malprime | Malprime | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knight | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knight | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Malprime | Prince nmod:desc | 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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