Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 30
Then Oliver was not a little dismayed, and commended himself to God and the Virgin.
What happens: not be, commend · To what, where: Oliver, God
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 dismayed | advmod |
| 2 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dismayed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dismayed | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 dismayed | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dismayed | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | dismayed | dismay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 commended | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 commended | cc |
| 10 | commended | commend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dismayed | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 commended | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 God | case |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 commended | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Virgin | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Virgin | det |
| 16 | Virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 God | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dismayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past · passive | Oliver | then | a little obl:unmarked; dismay property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | commend | past | Oliver | God and the Virgin | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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