Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 15
Tis true that had the King been here, we had not suffered this loss.
Who acts: Tis, King, we · What happens: have, be, not suffer · To what, where: loss
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 (Tis, King, 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 | 4 had | nsubj |
| 2 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tis | xcomp |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 here | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 here | nsubj |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 here | cop |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 suffered | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 suffered | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 suffered | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 suffered | advmod |
| 13 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 had | conj |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 loss | det |
| 15 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suffered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Tis | that nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | participle | King | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not suffer | past · perfect | we | this loss | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=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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