Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 40
One said one thing, and another another, but the greater part had little love for Reynaud.
Who acts: One, greater part · What happens: say, have · To what, where: one thing, little love · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, greater part), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thing | nummod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 another | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 another | cc |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 said | conj |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 another | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 part | det |
| 12 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 part | amod |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 love | amod |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Reynaud | case |
| 18 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | One | one thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the greater part | little love | for Reynaud | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient |
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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