Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 59
When the other knights heard this they were not a little shamed that a wounded man should take up the challenge, while they themselves held back. "
Who acts: other knights, wounded man, Oliver · What happens: hear, not shame, take up, hold back · To what, where: this, Oliver, challenge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other knights, wounded man, Oliver), 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 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knights | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knights | amod |
| 4 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shamed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shamed | aux:pass |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 shamed | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 little | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shamed | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | shamed | shame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 shamed | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 take | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 challenge | det |
| 21 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 held | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 held | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 held | nsubj |
| 25 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 24 they | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shamed | conj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 held | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the other knights | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not shame | past · passive | Oliver | a little obl:unmarked | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | take up | should | a wounded man | the challenge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold back | past | Oliver | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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