Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 70
When the churl was roused, he said to the King, "Now tarry awhile till this evil weather be ended." "
Who acts: King · What happens: rouse, say, end · To what, where: churl, evil weather · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 roused | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 churl | det |
| 3 | churl | churl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roused | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 roused | aux:pass |
| 5 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 roused | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tarry | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tarry | punct |
| 14 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 tarry | advmod |
| 15 | tarry | tarry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 15 tarry | advmod |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 ended | mark |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 weather | det |
| 19 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 weather | amod |
| 20 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ended | aux:pass |
| 22 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tarry | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 tarry | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tarry | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | past · passive | the churl | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King | to the King | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to king=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | end in a quote | infinitive · passive | this evil weather | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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