Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 17
And so it was done, and there was never a beggar or vagabond in the whole city but came to the supper.
What happens: do, not be, come · To what, where: city, whole city, beggar, supper
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. 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 | _ | 5 done | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 beggar | cop |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 beggar | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 beggar | det |
| 12 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 vagabond | cc |
| 14 | vagabond | vagabond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beggar | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 city | amod |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obl |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 supper | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 supper | det |
| 23 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | city | the whole city | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | a beggar or vagabond | vagabond conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the supper | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to supper=Initial_Location |
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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