Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 60

Many sought to put him back, for he seemed to press on in an unmannerly fashion; but he was a stalwart man that gave as much as he took.

Who acts: man, stalwart man · What happens: seek, put back, seem, press on, be, give · To what, where: Many, man, unmannerly fashion, stalwart man, much

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, stalwart man), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sought	nsubj:pass
2	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 put	csubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 put	mark
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 seemed	case
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 press	mark
12	press	press	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seemed	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 press	compound:prt
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 fashion	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fashion	det
16	unmannerly	unmannerly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fashion	amod
17	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 press	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 man	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 man	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 man	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 man	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	stalwart	stalwart	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 man	compound
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 gave	nsubj
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 man	acl:relcl
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 gave	obj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 took	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	nsubj
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 much	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	seek	participle · passive		Many			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	put back	to-infinitive			man		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
3	seem	past	man				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	press on	to-infinitive	man not said here			a unmannerly fashion	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	man	a stalwart man			tree rules
6	give	past	a stalwart man	much			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme
7	take	past	man				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 60