Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 3
Dear friends," he said, weeping as he spoke, "may God have mercy on you and receive you into His Paradise!
Who acts: Dear friends, Roland, God · What happens: say, weep, speak, have, receive · To what, where: mercy, you, Paradise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear friends, Roland, God), 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 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 friends | amod |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 friends | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 friends | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 weeping | punct |
| 8 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 spoke | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 spoke | nsubj |
| 11 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 weeping | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 15 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 receive | cc |
| 21 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 receive | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 Paradise | case |
| 24 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 Paradise | nmod:poss |
| 25 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 receive | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Dear friends | Roland nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | weep in a quote | gerund | Dear friends not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | past | Roland | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | may | God | mercy | on you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Patient | |||
| 5 | receive | present | God not said here | you | Roland's Paradise | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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