Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 29
For a time the King thought with tears about the good knights whom he had lost, Roland his nephew, and many another who had fallen on his field.
Who acts: King · What happens: think, lose, fall · To what, where: good knights, many, field
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 (King), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tears | case |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thought | obl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 knights | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 knights | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knights | amod |
| 12 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tears | nmod |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lost | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lost | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lost | aux |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 knights | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Roland | punct |
| 18 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tears | nmod |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 20 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Roland | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fallen | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fallen | cc |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fallen | nsubj |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 fallen | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 fallen | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fallen | aux |
| 27 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 thought | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 field | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 field | nmod:poss |
| 30 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fallen | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the King | time | with tears about the good knights Roland | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect | King | the good knights | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | fall | past · perfect · passive | many | King's field | who nsubj | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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