Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 29
Many a land have I conquered with thee for him, and now how great is my grief!
What happens: conquer, be · To what, where: Many land, great grief
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: 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 | 3 land | amod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 land | det |
| 3 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conquered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 conquered | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 conquered | nsubj |
| 6 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 thee | case |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 conquered | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 conquered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grief | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grief | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 great | advmod |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 great | advmod |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grief | amod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 grief | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grief | nmod:poss |
| 18 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conquered | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | present · perfect · passive | a Many land | with thee; for King; I nsubj | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with thou=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | my great grief | now | my nmod:poss | 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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