Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 59
There was not one among them but wept and sobbed; there was not one but prayed, "Now, may God keep Roland alive till we come to the battlefield, so that we may strike a blow for him."
Who acts: God, we · What happens: weep, sob, not be, pray, keep, come · To what, where: one, Roland, battlefield, blow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (God, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 one | nmod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 wept | cc |
| 8 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sobbed | cc |
| 10 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wept | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 one | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 prayed | cc |
| 17 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 keep | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 keep | punct |
| 20 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 keep | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Now | punct |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 keep | aux |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | nsubj |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 prayed | ccomp |
| 25 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obj |
| 26 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 keep | xcomp |
| 27 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 29 come | mark |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 come | nsubj |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 keep | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 battlefield | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 battlefield | det |
| 32 | battlefield | battlefield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 come | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 strike | punct |
| 34 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 38 strike | mark |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 so | fixed |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 strike | nsubj |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 strike | aux |
| 38 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 keep | conj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 blow | det |
| 40 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 strike | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 strike | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | sob | participle | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is a | past | one | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pray | past | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | may | God | Roland | now | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roland=Theme | ||
| 6 | come in a quote | present | we | the battlefield | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to battlefield=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | strike in a quote | may | we | a blow | for Roland | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=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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