Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 32

He cried to his fellows in the army of the heathen, "Easily can we bear up the battle.

Who acts: Barbary, we · What happens: cry, bear up · To what, where: fellows, army, battle · 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 (Barbary, we), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 fellows	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fellows	nmod:poss
5	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cried	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 army	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 army	det
8	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 heathen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heathen	det
11	heathen	heathen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 army	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bear	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 bear	punct
14	Easily	easily	ADV	_	17 bear	advmod
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 bear	aux
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 bear	nsubj
17	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cried	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 bear	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 battle	det
20	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bear	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Barbary		Barbary's fellows	the army of the heathen			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to fellow=Recipient
2	bear up in a quote	can	we	the battle				easily property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=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 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 32