Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 10
Then was King Charles sore afraid, and cried out for Roland.
Who acts: Charles · What happens: be, cry out
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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 (Charles), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 cried | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Then | cop |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 afraid | amod |
| 6 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Charles | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cried | cc |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 cried | compound:prt |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Roland | case |
| 12 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | then property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | Charles King | for Roland | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for roland=Recipient |
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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