Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 3
At this Roland was ill content, desiring greatly to have this office for himself.
Who acts: this · What happens: be, desire, have · To what, where: ill content, office
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 6 content | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 content | nsubj |
| 3 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 content | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 content | cop |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 content | amod |
| 6 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 desiring | punct |
| 8 | desiring | desire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 content | conj |
| 9 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 8 desiring | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 desiring | xcomp |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 office | det |
| 13 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 have | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | ill content | Roland nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | desire | gerund | this not said here | greatly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | this not said here | this office | for Roland | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Patient |
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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