Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 33
After a while, the master-mason said to him, "See you those poor men that seek to carry a stone yonder?
Who acts: master mason, poor men · What happens: say, see, seek, carry · To what, where: Reynaud, stone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Reynaud's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master mason, poor men), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 while | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mason | det |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mason | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 master | punct |
| 8 | mason | mason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 See | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 See | punct |
| 14 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 See | obj |
| 16 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 men | det |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 men | amod |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 See | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 seek | nsubj |
| 20 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 men | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 carry | mark |
| 22 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seek | xcomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stone | det |
| 24 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carry | obj |
| 25 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 22 carry | advmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the master mason | Reynaud | while | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | the master mason not said here | Reynaud | that poor men obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | seek in a quote | present | that poor men | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | carry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | that poor men not said here | a stone | yonder property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
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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