Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 53
To this Roland consented, but his friends would not suffer it to be so.
Who acts: friends · What happens: consent, not suffer, be · To what, where: blood
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 (friends), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 Roland | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Roland | det |
| 3 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 consented | obl |
| 4 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 suffer | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 suffer | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friends | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 suffer | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 suffer | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 suffer | advmod |
| 11 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 consented | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 suffer | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 so | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 so | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 suffer | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | to this Roland | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to roland=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | not suffer | would | need's friends | blood | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | need's friends not said here | so property | tree rules |
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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