Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 102
When he came to himself he asked his lords again for counsel, for he was loath to go back and leave Roland and the other Peers without help.
Who acts: King · What happens: come, ask, be, go back, leave · To what, where: King, lords, 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 (King), 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 | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lords | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 asked | obj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 asked | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 counsel | case |
| 12 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 loath | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 loath | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 loath | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 loath | cop |
| 17 | loath | loath | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 asked | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 loath | csubj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 leave | cc |
| 22 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | conj |
| 23 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 leave | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Peers | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Peers | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Peers | amod |
| 27 | Peers | Peer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 Roland | conj |
| 28 | without | without | ADP | _ | 29 help | case |
| 29 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leave | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | King | King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | King | King's lords | again | for counsel | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient | ||
| 3 | is | past | King | loath property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go back | to-infinitive | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | leave | infinitive | Roland and the other Peers | without help | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roland=Theme |
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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