Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 84
When they were all brought to the ground, Roland said to Floripas, "Madam, these gods are of no power and avail nothing."
Who acts: Roland, gods · What happens: bring, say, be, avail · To what, where: churches, ground, Floripas, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, gods), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 brought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 brought | advmod |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
| 10 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Floripas | case |
| 13 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Madam | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Madam | punct |
| 16 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Floripas | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 power | punct |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 gods | det |
| 19 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 power | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 power | cop |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 power | case |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 power | det |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Floripas | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 avail | cc |
| 25 | avail | avail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 avail | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | churches = church | the ground | all property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to ground=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Roland | Floripas and no power | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to floripas=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | this gods | of no power | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | avail in a quote | present | Roland not said here | nothing | 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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