Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 64
You seem to talk reason," said Ralph, "I will come.
Who acts: You, Ralph, I · What happens: seem, talk, say, come · To what, where: reason · 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 (You, Ralph, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 seem | nsubj |
| 2 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 talk | mark |
| 4 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seem | xcomp |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talk | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 seem | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 seem | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | You | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | talk | to-infinitive | You not said here | reason | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Ralph | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come | future | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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