Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 20
Tis a great fight," cried they who stood by, but no one knew who would prevail.
Who acts: you, fragments, one · What happens: tis, cry, stand by, know, prevail · To what, where: great fight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fragments, one), 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 | Tis | tis | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fight | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fight | amod |
| 4 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tis | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tis | parataxis |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | ccomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 stood | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 knew | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 prevail | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 prevail | aux |
| 19 | prevail | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 knew | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tis | imperative | you not said here | a great fight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | stand by in a quote | past | fragments = fragment | who nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | past | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | prevail in a quote | would | who nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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