Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 7
They call me Ralph the Charcoal-burner," said the man. "
Who acts: panniers, Ralph · What happens: call, say · To what, where: me · 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 (panniers, Ralph), 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 call | nsubj |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 call | obj |
| 4 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 burner | det |
| 6 | Charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burner | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Charcoal | punct |
| 8 | burner | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 burner | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 burner | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 call | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | panniers = pannier | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Ralph | the Charcoal burner nsubj; the man nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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