Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 3
The Duke Naymes said, "We must find out what has overtaken these people; let us feign to make an assault."
Who acts: Duke Naymes, We, us · What happens: say, find out, overtake, let, feign, make · To what, where: people, us, assault · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke Naymes, We, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Naymes | det |
| 2 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Naymes | compound |
| 3 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 7 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 find | compound:prt |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 overtaken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 overtaken | aux |
| 13 | overtaken | overtake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 find | ccomp |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 overtaken | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | feign | feign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 feign | xcomp |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 assault | det |
| 23 | assault | assault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Duke Naymes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find out in a quote | must | We | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | overtake in a quote | present · perfect · passive | this people | what nsubj:pass | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | feign in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | us not said here | a assault | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset assault=Product |
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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