Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 46
Then Roland said, "Go back to your place, porter, and open the gate and bid him enter.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: say, go back, open, bid, enter · To what, where: gate, porter · 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 (Roland), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
| 6 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 Go | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 place | nmod:poss |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Go | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 porter | punct |
| 12 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 open | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 open | cc |
| 15 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 Go | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gate | det |
| 17 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 open | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bid | cc |
| 19 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 open | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bid | obj |
| 21 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 bid | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Roland | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go back in a quote | infinitive | to your place and porter result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | |||||
| 3 | open in a quote | infinitive | the gate | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bid in a quote | past | porter | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | enter in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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