Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 16
This counsel angered the King greatly, but while he doubted what he should say, there came to the palace a young man, very fair, and well arrayed, with thirty squires following him, and did obeisance to the King. "
Who acts: counsel, thirty squires · What happens: anger, doubt, say, come, array, follow · To what, where: King, young man, palace, obeisance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (counsel, thirty squires), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 counsel | det |
| 2 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 angered | nsubj |
| 3 | angered | anger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 angered | obj |
| 6 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 3 angered | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 doubted | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 doubted | cc |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 doubted | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 doubted | nsubj |
| 11 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 angered | parataxis |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 say | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 say | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 doubted | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 came | expl |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 angered | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fair | punct |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 fair | advmod |
| 27 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 came | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 arrayed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 arrayed | cc |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 arrayed | advmod |
| 31 | arrayed | array | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 fair | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 squires | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 squires | case |
| 34 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 squires | nummod |
| 35 | squires | squire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 arrayed | obl |
| 36 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 squires | acl |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 following | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 did | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 did | cc |
| 40 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 angered | conj |
| 41 | obeisance | obeisance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 did | obj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 King | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 King | det |
| 44 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 did | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 angered | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 angered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anger | past | this counsel | the King | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | doubt | past | counsel | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | should | counsel | what obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come | past | a young man | the palace; there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | array | participle | with thirty squires; well property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | follow | gerund | thirty squires not said here | King | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | do | past | this counsel not said here | obeisance | to the King | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obeisance=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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