Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 53
Pride was in his eye when he looked towards the Saracens; but to the men of France his regard was all sweetness and humility.
Who acts: Pride, Roland, regard · What happens: be, look, regard · To what, where: eye, sweetness
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pride, Roland, regard), 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 | Pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eye | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eye | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 eye | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eye | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 looked | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eye | advcl |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 Saracens | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Saracens | det |
| 11 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looked | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 sweetness | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 sweetness | cc |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 men | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 men | det |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sweetness | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 France | case |
| 18 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 men | nmod |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 regard | nmod:poss |
| 20 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sweetness | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sweetness | cop |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 sweetness | det |
| 23 | sweetness | sweetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eye | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 humility | cc |
| 25 | humility | humility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sweetness | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eye | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Pride | Roland's eye but all sweetness and humility | Roland nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | past | Roland | towards the Saracens | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards saracen=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Roland's regard | all sweetness and humility | to the men of France; humility conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | regard | Roland | nom regard «cognition transitive»: poss=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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