Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 8
Tis the dust of a great multitude, even of the heathen army.
To what, where: Tis dust
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 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dust | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dust | det |
| 3 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 multitude | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 multitude | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 multitude | amod |
| 7 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dust | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 army | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 army | advmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 army | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 army | det |
| 12 | heathen | heathen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 army | amod |
| 13 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dust | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dust | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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