Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 73
Nevertheless Fierabras entreated him to have patience, and, turning to his father, would have persuaded him even yet to baptism. "
Who acts: Fierabras, turning · What happens: entreat, have, turn, persuade · To what, where: doer, patience
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fierabras, turning), 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 entreated | advmod |
| 2 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 entreated | nsubj |
| 3 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entreated | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 entreated | xcomp |
| 7 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 persuaded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 persuaded | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turning | punct |
| 11 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 persuaded | csubj:pass |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 father | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turning | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 father | punct |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 persuaded | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 persuaded | aux |
| 18 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 entreated | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 persuaded | obj |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 yet | advmod |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 23 baptism | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 baptism | case |
| 23 | baptism | baptism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 persuaded | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entreated | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 entreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | past | Fierabras | doer | nevertheless property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | Fierabras not said here | patience | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | to doer's father result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to father=Result | |||||
| 4 | persuade | would · perfect | turning | doer | to baptism | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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