Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 74

And when I asked them why they dealt so hardly with me, they answered that they were in such sore need at their castle of Montalban that they could not choose but rob all wayfarers.

Who acts: I, armies · What happens: ask, deal, answer, be, not choose, rob · To what, where: armies, such sore, wayfarers · 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 (I, armies), 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	_	8 dealt	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 asked	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dealt	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	obj
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 dealt	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dealt	nsubj
8	dealt	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 hardly	advmod
10	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	8 dealt	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 dealt	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 answered	nsubj
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dealt	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 need	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 need	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 need	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 sore	case
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sore	amod
21	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 need	obl
22	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 answered	ccomp
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 castle	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 castle	nmod:poss
25	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 need	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Montalban	case
27	Montalban	Montalban	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 castle	nmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 choose	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 choose	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 choose	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 choose	advmod
32	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 need	advcl
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 rob	cc
34	rob	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 choose	conj
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 wayfarers	det
36	wayfarers	wayfarer	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 rob	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dealt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	I		armies = army			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	deal	past	armies = army				with me; hardly property	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with i=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	armies = army					tree rules
4	is	past	armies = army			such sore	at armies's castle of Montalban; need property	tree rules
5	not choose	could	armies = army					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	rob	infinitive	armies = army not said here	all wayfarers				vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wayfarer=Source

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 74