Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 73
Sometimes he was inclined one way, and sometimes another.
What happens: incline · To what, where: way
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: 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 inclined | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 inclined | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 inclined | aux:pass |
| 4 | inclined | incline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 way | nummod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inclined | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 another | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 another | cc |
| 9 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 another | advmod |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 inclined | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inclined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incline | past · passive | way | one way obl:unmarked; sometimes property | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=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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