Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 42
But to Roland he cried, "Come, comrade, help me; well I know that we two shall part in great sorrow this day."
Who acts: Roland, we · What happens: cry, come, help, know, part · To what, where: Roland, comrade, great sorrow · 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 (Roland, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 cried | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 Roland | case |
| 3 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Come | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Come | punct |
| 8 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 comrade | punct |
| 10 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Come | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 help | punct |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Come | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 help | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 know | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 part | mark |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 part | nsubj |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 we | appos |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 part | aux |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | ccomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 sorrow | case |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sorrow | amod |
| 25 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 part | nmod |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Roland | Roland | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to roland=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | comrade | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help in a quote | infinitive | Roland | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | Roland | day | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | part in a quote | shall | we | great sorrow | 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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