Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 60
Alas! it was all in vain; they could not come in time for all their speed.
Who acts: blow, men · What happens: be, not come
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 (blow, men), 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 7 vain | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 vain | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vain | cop |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 vain | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 vain | case |
| 7 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 come | advmod |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 vain | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 speed | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 speed | det:predet |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 speed | nmod:poss |
| 18 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 vain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | blow | all, vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not come | could | men = man | time | for men's speed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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