Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 56
Never before was a god so ill-treated of his worshippers.
What happens: be, treat · To what, where: god
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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 before | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 god | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 god | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 god | det |
| 5 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 treated | advmod |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 treated | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ill | punct |
| 9 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 god | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 worshippers | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 worshippers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | worshippers | worshipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 treated | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 god | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a god | never | before property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | treat | participle | a god not said here | of God's worshippers | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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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