Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 98
Nevertheless there was one lord, an old man, and held in great repute for his wisdom, who did not consent to this counsel. "
Who acts: one lord, great repute · What happens: be, hold, not consent · To what, where: old man, great repute
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one lord, great repute), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 lord | nummod |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lord | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 held | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 held | cc |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 man | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 repute | case |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 repute | amod |
| 15 | repute | repute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 wisdom | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 repute | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 consent | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 consent | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 consent | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 consent | advmod |
| 23 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 repute | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 counsel | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 counsel | det |
| 26 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 consent | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | one lord | there | nevertheless property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hold | participle | a old man not said here | great repute for lord's wisdom | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in repute=Location | ||||
| 3 | not consent | past · do-support | great repute for lord's wisdom | to this counsel | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to counsel=Theme |
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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