Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 52
But Roland and Ogier and the Duke Naymes were very sorry, and made supplication to the King, but he hardened his heart against them.
Who acts: Roland, King · What happens: be, make, harden · To what, where: supplication, heart
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 (Roland, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 sorry | cc |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Ogier | cc |
| 4 | Ogier | Ogier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Roland | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Naymes | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Naymes | det |
| 7 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Naymes | compound |
| 8 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Roland | conj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sorry | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 sorry | advmod |
| 11 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sorry | parataxis |
| 15 | supplication | supplication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 King | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hardened | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 hardened | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hardened | nsubj |
| 22 | hardened | harden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hardened | obj |
| 25 | against | against | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hardened | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Roland and Ogier and the Duke Naymes | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | supplication | to the King | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset supplication=Product | ||||
| 3 | harden | past | King | King's heart | against Roland | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=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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