Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 52
There was not one of them but wept for very tenderness of heart.
Who acts: one · What happens: be, weep
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 (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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 one | nmod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 wept | cc |
| 8 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 tenderness | case |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 tenderness | advmod |
| 11 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wept | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tenderness | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | one of mountains | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | one of mountains not said here | for tenderness of heart | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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