Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 38
He prayed aloud, saying, "O Lord God, now keep the valiant Oliver, that he be not slain or taken.
Who acts: King · What happens: pray, say, keep, not be, take · To what, where: Lord God, valiant Oliver · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 prayed | nsubj |
| 2 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 2 prayed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 prayed | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 God | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 God | punct |
| 8 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 10 God | discourse |
| 9 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 God | compound |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saying | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 keep | advmod |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 God | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Oliver | det |
| 15 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Oliver | amod |
| 16 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 slain | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 slain | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 slain | nsubj |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 slain | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 slain | advmod |
| 22 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 keep | parataxis |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 taken | cc |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 slain | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | King | aloud property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | King not said here | Lord God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent god=Topic | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | infinitive | the valiant Oliver | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oliver=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | infinitive | King | slain property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | participle | King not said here | 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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