Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 41
Does the King hold us to be fools that he makes us tarry here for nothing?" "
Who acts: King, us · What happens: hold, be, make, tarry · To what, where: us, fools
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 (King, us), 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 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hold | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | nsubj |
| 4 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hold | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fools | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fools | cop |
| 8 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hold | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 makes | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 makes | nsubj |
| 11 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hold | advcl |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 makes | obj |
| 13 | tarry | tarry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 makes | xcomp |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 tarry | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 nothing | case |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 tarry | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present · do-support | the King | us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the King not said here | fools | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | present | King | us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tarry | infinitive | us not said here | here | for nothing | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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