Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 39
Loudly did he lament, crying out that his father Reyner should never more see him alive.
Who acts: water, father · What happens: lament, cry out, see · To what, where: water
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, father), 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 | Loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 4 lament | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lament | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lament | nsubj |
| 4 | lament | lament | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 crying | punct |
| 6 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 lament | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 crying | compound:prt |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | nsubj |
| 11 | Reyner | Reyner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 father | appos |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lament | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 see | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lament | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lament | past · do-support | water | loudly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | gerund | water not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | should | water's father | water | never | alive property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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