Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 136
And bright and clear was the sound of the trumpets; but the brightest and clearest of all was the horn of Charles the great King.
What happens: be · To what, where: bright sound, clearest horn
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sound | cc |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sound | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 clear | cc |
| 4 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bright | conj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sound | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sound | det |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 trumpets | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trumpets | det |
| 10 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sound | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 horn | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 clearest | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 clearest | det |
| 14 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 clearest | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 clearest | cc |
| 16 | clearest | clear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 horn | amod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 clearest | obl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 horn | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horn | det |
| 21 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sound | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Charles | case |
| 23 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 horn | nmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 King | amod |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Charles | appos |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the bright sound and the clearest horn | of the trumpets | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the clearest horn | of Charles | 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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