Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 124

And when the shriving was ended, then he begged for time wherein he might make his prayers, nor could Ripus say him nay.

Who acts: Richard, Ripus · What happens: shrive, be, beg, make, say, pray · To what, where: prayers, Richard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Richard, Ripus), 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	_	6 ended	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 ended	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ended	det
4	shriving	shrive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 ended	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ended	cop
6	ended	ended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begged	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 begged	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begged	nsubj
10	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ended	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begged	obl
13	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	16 make	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 make	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 make	aux
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 time	acl:relcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 prayers	nmod:poss
18	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 make	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 say	cc
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 say	aux
22	Ripus	Ripus	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 say	nsubj
23	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begged	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 say	obj
25	nay	nay	INTJ	_	23 say	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shrive	gerund					tree rules
2	is	past				ended property	tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past	Richard		then; time		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
4	make	might	Richard	Richard's prayers		wherein property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Product
5	say speech: assert	could	Ripus	Richard			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme nay=Manner
6	pray		Richard				nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 124

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 124