Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 100
So shall we recover the Holy Things, for which, indeed, I feel great sorrow, and avenge also Roland, the good knight whom I am persuaded you will never see more."
Who acts: we, I, you · What happens: recover, feel, avenge, persuade, not see · To what, where: Holy Things, great sorrow, I, Roland
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, I, you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 recover | advmod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 recover | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 recover | nsubj |
| 4 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Things | det |
| 6 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 7 Things | compound |
| 7 | Things | Thing | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 recover | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 which | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 recover | advcl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 indeed | punct |
| 12 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 recover | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 recover | parataxis |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sorrow | amod |
| 17 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feel | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 avenge | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 avenge | cc |
| 20 | avenge | avenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 feel | conj |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 Roland | advmod |
| 22 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 see | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 knight | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 knight | det |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 knight | amod |
| 26 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Roland | appos |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 persuaded | obj |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 persuaded | nsubj |
| 29 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 30 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 knight | acl:relcl |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 see | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 see | aux |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 see | advmod |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 avenge | ccomp |
| 35 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 see | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recover | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 recover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | shall | we | the Holy Things | which advcl:relcl; indeed property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | present | I | great sorrow | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | avenge | present | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | persuade | present · passive | I | the good knight obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not see | future | you | Roland | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
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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