Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 116
My comrade is in a goodly rage," cried Roland; "these are the blows that make King Charles love us.
Who acts: comrade, goodly rage, these, blows · What happens: be, cry, make, love · To what, where: goodly rage, blows, Charles, us
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 (comrade, goodly rage, these, blows), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 rage | nmod:poss |
| 2 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rage | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 rage | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rage | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rage | det |
| 6 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rage | amod |
| 7 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rage | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 rage | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | flat |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 blows | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 blows | punct |
| 14 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 blows | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 blows | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 blows | det |
| 17 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 make | nsubj |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 blows | acl:relcl |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | conj |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 love | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | comrade | My goodly rage | My nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | My goodly rage | Roland flat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | these | the blows | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | present | the blows | Charles King | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset charles=Product | ||||
| 5 | love | present | the blows not said here | us | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=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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