Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 87
Nevertheless here we may not stay, for all our provision of food has been burnt by fire.
Who acts: we, fire, our · What happens: not stay, burnt, provide · To what, where: provision
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 (we, fire, our), 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 | _ | 2 here | advmod |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stay | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 stay | advmod |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 provision | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 provision | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 provision | det:predet |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 provision | nmod:poss |
| 11 | provision | provision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 food | case |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burnt | obl |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 burnt | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 burnt | aux:pass |
| 16 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 provision | acl:relcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 fire | case |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burnt | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay | may | we | here | for our provision | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | burnt | present · perfect · passive | fire | our provision not said here | of food | tree rules | |||
| 3 | provide | our | nom provision «communication intransitive»: poss=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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