Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 84

The Admiral was very angry to hear such talk and would have struck Brullant with his staff, but Sortibrant held both his arms, "Let be your anger; we should do better to take counsel together how we may break down this Tower that the Christians hold."

Who acts: Admiral, Sortibrant, anger, we, Christians, your · What happens: be, hear, strike, hold, let, do · To what, where: such talk, Brullant, arms, counsel, Tower · 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 (Admiral, Sortibrant, anger, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Admiral	det
2	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 angry	xcomp
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 talk	amod
9	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 struck	cc
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 struck	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 struck	aux
13	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 hear	conj
14	Brullant	Brullant	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 struck	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 staff	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 staff	nmod:poss
17	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 struck	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 held	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 held	cc
20	Sortibrant	Sortibrant	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 held	nsubj
21	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	parataxis
22	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	24 arms	det:predet
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 arms	nmod:poss
24	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 held	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Let	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Let	punct
27	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 held	advcl
28	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 Let	xcomp
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 anger	nmod:poss
30	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 be	nsubj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 do	punct
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 do	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 do	aux
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 angry	parataxis
35	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 do	xcomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 take	mark
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 do	advcl
38	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 take	obj
39	together	together	ADV	_	37 take	advmod
40	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 break	advmod
41	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 break	nsubj
42	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 break	aux
43	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 take	advcl
44	down	down	ADP	_	43 break	compound:prt
45	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 Tower	det
46	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 break	obj
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 hold	mark
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Christians	det
49	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	50 hold	nsubj
50	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 break	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Admiral		angry property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	the Admiral not said here	such talk		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus
3	strike	would · perfect	the Admiral not said here	Brullant	with Admiral's staff	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent brullant=Patient with staff=Instrument
4	hold	past	Sortibrant	Admiral's arms		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
5	let in a quote	infinitive	Sortibrant not said here			tree rules
6	be in a quote	infinitive	your anger			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	do in a quote	should	we		good property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	take in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	counsel	together property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
9	break down in a quote	may	we	this Tower		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Patient
10	hold in a quote	present	the Christians			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	anger in a quote		your			nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 84