Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 11
Tis not for a brave man to sound the horn and cry for help now that we are in such case." "
Who acts: we · What happens: sound, cry, be · To what, where: horn, such case
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nsubj |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 man | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 man | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sound | mark |
| 8 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 man | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horn | det |
| 10 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sound | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cry | cc |
| 12 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sound | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 help | case |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cry | obl |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 case | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 case | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 case | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 case | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 case | case |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 case | amod |
| 21 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | to-infinitive | the horn | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horn=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | infinitive | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | we | such case | now | tree rules |
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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