Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 109

But all the Frenchmen cried out, "This is a grievous thing that so brave a warrior should be slain!"

Who acts: Frenchmen, This · What happens: cry out, be, slay · To what, where: grievous thing, warrior · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frenchmen, This), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 cried	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 Frenchmen	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Frenchmen	det
4	Frenchmen	frenchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 cried	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thing	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 thing	punct
9	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 thing	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thing	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	grievous	grievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 brave	nsubj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 brave	advmod
16	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	nmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 warrior	det
18	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slain	nsubj:pass
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 slain	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 slain	aux:pass
21	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 brave	ccomp
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 brave	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	all Frenchmen			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	This	a grievous thing	brave that nmod	tree rules
3	slay in a quote	should · passive		a warrior		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 109

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 109