Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 6
No man answering him or coming forth, he fell into a great rage and sware by his god Mahomet that he would not depart from the place till he should have done battle with some Christian man; but still no one came forth to him.
Who acts: man, one · What happens: answer, come, fall, not depart, do · To what, where: man, great rage, place, battle
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 (man, one), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | answering | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 man | acl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answering | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 coming | cc |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 answering | conj |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 coming | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 rage | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rage | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rage | amod |
| 14 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sware | cc |
| 16 | sware | sware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rage | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Mahomet | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 Mahomet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Mahomet | compound |
| 20 | Mahomet | mahomet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 depart | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 depart | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 depart | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 depart | advmod |
| 25 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fell | advcl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 place | det |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 depart | obl |
| 29 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 33 done | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 done | nsubj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 done | aux |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 done | aux |
| 33 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 depart | advcl |
| 34 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 done | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 man | case |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 man | det |
| 37 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 man | amod |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 battle | nmod |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 came | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 came | cc |
| 41 | still | still | ADV | _ | 44 came | advmod |
| 42 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 43 one | det |
| 43 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 came | nsubj |
| 44 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | conj |
| 45 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 44 came | advmod |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 him | case |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 came | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | gerund | no man not said here | man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | no man not said here | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | no man | a great rage and sware | by man's god Mahomet | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mahomet=Location | |||
| 4 | not depart | would | man | the place | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | do | should · perfect | man | battle | with some Christian man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | come | past | no one | man | still | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location |
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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