Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 47
They say that I am ever bringing down the fattest of the herd.
Who acts: foresters, I · What happens: say, bring down · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foresters, I), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 bringing | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 bringing | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bringing | aux |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 bringing | advmod |
| 7 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 say | ccomp |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 fattest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fattest | det |
| 10 | fattest | fat | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 bringing | advmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 herd | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 herd | det |
| 13 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fattest | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | foresters = forester | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring down | present · progressive | I | ever | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
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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