Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 23
And they, for fear of the Admiral, durst not stir; nevertheless they cursed Gerames in their hearts.
Who acts: prisoners · What happens: curse, fear · To what, where: Gerames, hearts, Admiral
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoners), 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 | _ | 16 cursed | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cursed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 they | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 fear | case |
| 5 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 they | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Admiral | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Admiral | det |
| 8 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fear | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 durst | punct |
| 10 | durst | durst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fear | conj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 stir | advmod |
| 12 | stir | stir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 durst | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 fear | punct |
| 14 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 16 cursed | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cursed | nsubj |
| 16 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Gerames | gerame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cursed | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hearts | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cursed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 cursed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | past | prisoners = prisoner | Gerames | prisoners's hearts | nevertheless property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerame=Theme | ||
| 2 | fear | the Admiral | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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