Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 22
Many a battle I have won with your help; and many a kingdom have I conquered, that my Lord Charles possesses this day.
Who acts: I, Lord, your · What happens: win, conquer, possess, help · To what, where: battle, many
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Death of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Lord, your), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 battle | det |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Many | appos |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 won | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 won | aux |
| 6 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 battle | acl:relcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 help | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 help | nmod:poss |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 won | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 conquered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 conquered | cc |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 conquered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kingdom | det |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conquered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 conquered | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 conquered | nsubj |
| 17 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Many | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 possesses | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 possesses | mark |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 possesses | nsubj |
| 22 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Lord | flat |
| 23 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 conquered | conj |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 possesses | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Many | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present · perfect | I | a battle not said here | with your help | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | conquer | present · perfect · passive | many | a kingdom nsubj:pass; I nsubj | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | possess | present | my Lord | day | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | help | your | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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