Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 12
This done, he cried to the King, "Send now Roland or Oliver to fight with me.
Who acts: man · What happens: do, cry, send, fight · To what, where: This, King, Roland · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cried | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Send | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Send | punct |
| 11 | Send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 Roland | advmod |
| 13 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Send | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 Oliver | cc |
| 15 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Roland | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fight | mark |
| 17 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Send | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 fight | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | man | the King | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | send in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | Roland or Oliver | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fight in a quote | to-infinitive | man not said here | with man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-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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