Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 116

Nevertheless the counsel of those who were for going back prevailed; for Geoffrey of the High Tower, than whom there was no man more worshipful in the King's court, was urgent that it should be so.

Who acts: man, counsel · What happens: go back, prevail, be · To what, where: court

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 (man, counsel), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	3 counsel	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 counsel	det
3	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 urgent	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 those	case
5	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 counsel	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 going	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 going	aux
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 going	mark
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 those	acl:relcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	11 prevailed	advmod
11	prevailed	prevail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 going	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 Geoffrey	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 Geoffrey	case
14	Geoffrey	Geoffrey	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 prevailed	obl:agent
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 Tower	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Tower	det
17	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Tower	amod
18	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Geoffrey	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 whom	punct
20	than	than	ADP	_	21 whom	case
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 worshipful	advmod
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 worshipful	cop
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 worshipful	nsubj
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 worshipful	advmod
27	worshipful	worshipful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Geoffrey	amod
28	in	in	ADP	_	32 court	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 court	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 King	case
32	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 worshipful	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 counsel	punct
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 urgent	cop
35	urgent	urgent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 be	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 be	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 be	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 urgent	advcl
40	so	so	ADV	_	39 be	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 urgent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go back	past · progressive			who nsubj	tree rules
2	prevail	participle			Geoffrey of the High Tower obl:agent	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	no man	the King's court	Geoffrey of the High Tower advmod; worshipful property	tree rules
4	is	past	the counsel of those		urgent 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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The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 116