Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 43
The Barons made intercession to the King that he would accord peace to Reynaud, but he would not hear, but rather was more inflamed with anger than before against him and his kinsmen.
Who acts: Barons, King · What happens: make, accord, not hear, inflame · To what, where: intercession, peace, Reynaud
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barons, King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Barons | det |
| 2 | Barons | Baron | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | intercession | intercession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 King | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 accord | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 accord | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 accord | aux |
| 11 | accord | accord | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | advcl |
| 12 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 accord | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Reynaud | case |
| 14 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 accord | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hear | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 hear | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hear | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 hear | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 hear | advmod |
| 20 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 accord | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 inflamed | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 inflamed | cc |
| 23 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 26 inflamed | advmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 inflamed | aux:pass |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 inflamed | advmod |
| 26 | inflamed | inflame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 anger | case |
| 28 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 inflamed | obl |
| 29 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 32 him | mark |
| 30 | before | before | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 31 | against | against | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 anger | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 kinsmen | cc |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 35 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 him | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Barons | intercession | to the King | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intercession=Product | |||
| 2 | accord | would | King | peace | Reynaud | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent peace=Theme to reynaud=Goal | |||
| 3 | not hear | would | King | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | inflame | past · passive | the Barons not said here | with anger before King | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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