Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 48
And she came to Roland and kneeled before him, and kissed his feet, and cried to him, "O, Sir, help this Guy whom I love, or else I am a lost woman.
Who acts: Guy, I · What happens: come, kneele, kiss, cry, help, love · To what, where: Roland, feet, Floripas, Guy, lost woman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Guy, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Roland | case |
| 5 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kneeled | cc |
| 7 | kneeled | kneele | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Roland | conj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kneeled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kissed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kissed | cc |
| 12 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kissed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cried | cc |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cried | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Sir | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Sir | punct |
| 22 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 24 Sir | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Sir | punct |
| 24 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 help | punct |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 Guy | det |
| 28 | Guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 help | obj |
| 29 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 love | obj |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 love | nsubj |
| 31 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 Guy | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 woman | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 woman | cc |
| 34 | else | else | ADV | _ | 39 woman | advmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 woman | nsubj |
| 36 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 woman | cop |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 woman | det |
| 38 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 woman | amod |
| 39 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 love | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Guy | Roland | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to roland=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | kneele | participle | Guy not said here | before Floripas | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kiss | past | Guy not said here | Floripas's feet | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | Floripas | Sir conj | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | help in a quote | present | Guy not said here | this Guy | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guy=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | love in a quote | present | I | this Guy | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | lose in a quote | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | present | I | a lost woman | else property | 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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