Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 34
And he heard the men cry, "Help us, King Charles, help us!"
Who acts: King, men · What happens: hear, cry, help · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
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, men), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 heard | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cry | nsubj |
| 6 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Help | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Help | punct |
| 9 | Help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Help | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Charles | punct |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Help | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | King | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | the men | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | help in a quote | infinitive | King not said here | us | Charles King obl | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | help in a quote | present | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |
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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