Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 131
And there was much dispute between them, so that Reynaud had once half drawn his sword from its sheath.
Who acts: much dispute · What happens: be, draw · To what, where: Reynaud, sheath
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much dispute), 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 | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 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 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dispute | amod |
| 5 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dispute | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drawn | punct |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 15 drawn | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 drawn | mark |
| 11 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 drawn | aux |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 half | advmod |
| 14 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 drawn | advmod |
| 15 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 was | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sword | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drawn | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 sheath | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sheath | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drawn | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | much dispute between sons | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past · perfect · passive | Reynaud | sword's sheath | Reynaud's sword obj; half property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary sword=Result |
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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