Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 36
Nor did these turn a deaf ear to his cries, but came with all haste to help him, if it might be.
Who acts: Nor, ear, body · What happens: turn, come, help, be, cry · To what, where: deaf ear, cries, body
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 (Nor, ear, body), 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 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turn | aux |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ear | det |
| 6 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ear | amod |
| 7 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 cries | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cries | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turn | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turn | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 haste | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 haste | det |
| 16 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 help | mark |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 came | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 be | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 be | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 be | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 be | aux |
| 24 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 turn | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · do-support | Nor | a deaf ear | body's cries | these nsubj | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to cry=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | come | past | with all haste | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | body | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | be a condition, not said to happen | might | ear | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cry | body | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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