Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 8

You know also that this has not been done without grievous loss on our part, and verily had not been done at all but for succour that we looked not for.

Who acts: You, succour · What happens: know, not do, not look · To what, where: this, all

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, succour), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	also	also	ADV	_	2 know	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 done	mark
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 done	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 done	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 done	advmod
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 done	aux:pass
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 know	advcl
10	without	without	ADP	_	12 loss	case
11	grievous	grievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 loss	amod
12	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 done	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 part	case
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 part	nmod:poss
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 loss	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 done	cc
18	verily	verily	ADV	_	22 done	advmod
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 done	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 done	advmod
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 done	aux:pass
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 know	parataxis
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 done	obl
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 succour	cc
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 succour	case
27	succour	succour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 done	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 looked	nsubj
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 looked	nsubj
30	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 succour	acl:relcl
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 looked	advmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	30 looked	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	You				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not do	present · perfect · passive		this		without grievous loss on our part	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	not do	past · perfect · passive			all	succour conj; verily property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»
4	not look	past	succour			we nsubj	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 8