Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 25
If that be so," answered Roland, "seeing that I know well the Queen and her ladies, and you are on your way to them, I will trust to your going.
Who acts: that, I, you, your · What happens: be, answer, see, know, trust, go · To what, where: Roland, Queen, ladies, way · 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 (that, I, you, your), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 so | mark |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 so | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 so | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 answered | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 so | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seeing | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 seeing | punct |
| 11 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 answered | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 seeing | advcl |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 Queen | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Queen | det |
| 17 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 know | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ladies | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Queen | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 way | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 way | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 way | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 way | cop |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 way | nmod:poss |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 way | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 trust | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 trust | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 trust | aux |
| 33 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | conj |
| 34 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 36 going | mark |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 going | nsubj |
| 36 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 trust | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | that | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Roland | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | know | present | I | the Queen and Paris's ladies | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | present | you | ladies = lady | your way | your nmod:poss | tree rules | ||
| 6 | trust | future | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | go | gerund | your | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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