Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 6

Charles wept for sadness of heart, and his nobles wept with him; there was not one of all that company but had lost son or brother or comrade or friend.

Who acts: Charles, nobles · What happens: weep, not be, lose · To what, where: one, son

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 (Charles, nobles), 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	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 sadness	case
4	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wept	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 heart	case
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sadness	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wept	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wept	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nobles	nmod:poss
10	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wept	nsubj
11	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wept	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 one	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 one	expl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 one	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 one	advmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 wept	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 company	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 company	det
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 company	det
22	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 one	nmod
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 lost	cc
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lost	aux
25	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 wept	conj
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	obj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 brother	cc
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 son	conj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 comrade	cc
30	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 son	conj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 friend	cc
32	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 comrade	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	past	Charles			for sadness of heart	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	weep	past	Charles's nobles			with Charles	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	past	Charles not said here	one	there	of all company	tree rules
4	lose	past · perfect	Charles not said here	son or brother or comrade or friend			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality

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, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 6