Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 23
Thereupon he turned to Roland and said, "I pray you, dear nephew, go forth and meet this Turk in battle."
Who acts: King · What happens: turn, say, pray, go, meet · To what, where: Roland, you, Turk, battle · 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), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Roland | case |
| 5 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pray | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 pray | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 pray | nsubj |
| 11 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 pray | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nephew | punct |
| 14 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nephew | amod |
| 15 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pray | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 pray | conj |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 meet | cc |
| 20 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | conj |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 Turk | det |
| 22 | Turk | Turk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 meet | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 battle | case |
| 24 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meet | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | King | Roland | thereupon property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to roland=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pray in a quote | present | King | you | dear nephew obl | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | King not said here | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | meet in a quote | infinitive | King not said here | this Turk | battle | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turk=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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