Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 41
He did not cease to commend himself to God; also he cried out to the Barons of France, and especially to Roland, that they should help him.
Who acts: thing, hands · What happens: not cease, commend, cry out, help · To what, where: Roland, thing, God, Barons
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, hands), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cease | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cease | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 cease | advmod |
| 4 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 commend | mark |
| 6 | commend | commend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cease | xcomp |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 commend | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 God | case |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 commend | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 cried | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cease | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 cried | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Barons | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Barons | det |
| 17 | Barons | Baron | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 cried | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 France | case |
| 19 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Barons | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Roland | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Roland | cc |
| 22 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 24 Roland | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Roland | case |
| 24 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cease | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 help | punct |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 help | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 help | nsubj |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 help | aux |
| 29 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cease | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 help | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cease | past · do-support | thing | Roland | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | commend | to-infinitive | thing not said here | thing | God | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | thing | the Barons of France | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to baron=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | help | should | hands = hand | thing | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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