Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 14
Their greetings ended, he said to the man, "Come now to the King; let nothing hinder you." "
Who acts: greetings, man, panniers · What happens: end, say, come, let, greet · To what, where: man, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greetings, man, panniers), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 greetings | nmod:poss |
| 2 | greetings | greeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ended | nsubj |
| 3 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ended | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Come | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Come | punct |
| 12 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 Come | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 King | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Come | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ended | ccomp |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | hinder | hind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 nothing | amod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | panniers's greetings | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | now | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | panniers's greetings not said here | nothing | you obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient you=Theme | |||
| 5 | greet | panniers = pannier | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=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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