Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 35
All this time he did not cease to cry out for help, calling by name on King Charles and on Roland, who was his comrade.
Who acts: body, Charles · What happens: not cease, cry out, call, be · To what, where: Charles, comrade · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body, Charles), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cease | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cease | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cease | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 cease | advmod |
| 7 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cry | mark |
| 9 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cease | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 cry | compound:prt |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 help | case |
| 12 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cry | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 calling | punct |
| 14 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cry | advcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 name | case |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 calling | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 Charles | case |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 calling | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Roland | cc |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 Roland | case |
| 22 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Charles | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 comrade | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 comrade | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 comrade | cop |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 27 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Charles | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cease | past · do-support | body | time | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | to-infinitive | body not said here | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | body not said here | Charles King and Roland and body's comrade | by name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is a | past | Charles King and Roland and body's comrade | body's comrade | body nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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