Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 44

Nor, as he thought, could he keep himself from sighs and tears; yet one thing he remembered beyond all others--to pray for forgiveness of his sins. "

Who acts: Lord, one thing · What happens: think, keep, remember, pray · To what, where: Lord, sighs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Lord, one thing), 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	Nor	nor	INTJ	_	5 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 thought	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	aux
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keep	nsubj
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	ccomp
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 keep	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 sighs	case
12	sighs	sigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tears	cc
14	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sighs	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 remembered	punct
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	20 remembered	cc
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 thing	nummod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remembered	nsubj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 remembered	nsubj
20	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	conj
21	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	23 others	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 others	det
23	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 remembered	obl
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 pray	punct
25	to	to	PART	_	26 pray	mark
26	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 remembered	parataxis
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 forgiveness	case
28	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pray	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 sins	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sins	nmod:poss
31	sins	sin	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 forgiveness	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 pray	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Lord				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	keep	could	Lord	Lord	sighs and tears		vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer himself=Beneficiary from sigh=Eventuality
3	remember	past	one thing			beyond all others; Lord nsubj	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	pray	to-infinitive				for forgiveness of Lord's sins	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for forgiveness=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 44

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 44