Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 128
Nevertheless, now that he has lost the Count Roland his nephew, he can scarcely hold his ground before us.
Who acts: Emir · What happens: lose, hold · To what, where: Count Roland, ground
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emir), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 7 lost | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lost | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 lost | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lost | aux |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Roland | det |
| 9 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Roland | compound |
| 10 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 12 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hold | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hold | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hold | aux |
| 16 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 17 hold | advmod |
| 17 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lost | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ground | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hold | obj |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 us | case |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 hold | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · perfect | Emir | the Count Roland | now | Emir's nephew obj; nevertheless property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | hold | can | Emir | Emir's ground | before us | scarcely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ground=Theme before we=Location |
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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