Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 17
"For all that," said the king, "I will find one of my knights that shall encounter him.
Who acts: king, knights · What happens: say, find, encounter · To what, where: one, King · 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 (king, knights), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 said | obl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 all | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 find | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 knights | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 knights | nmod:poss |
| 18 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 encounter | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 encounter | aux |
| 21 | encounter | encounter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 knights | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 encounter | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | for all that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | future | the king = king | one of my knights | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 3 | encounter in a quote | shall | my knights | King | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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