Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 27
Now it shall be seen how these said old knights shall stand up against this heathen man, for indeed of the younger no one will go forth against him."
Who acts: these, old knights, one · What happens: see, say, stand up, go · To what, where: comrade · 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 (these, old knights, one), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 seen | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seen | aux:pass |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 said | advmod |
| 7 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | advcl |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knights | amod |
| 10 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stand | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stand | aux |
| 12 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 stand | compound:prt |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 man | det |
| 16 | heathen | heathen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stand | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 go | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 go | mark |
| 20 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 27 go | advmod |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 go | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 younger | det |
| 23 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 go | advcl |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 go | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 go | aux |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stand | conj |
| 28 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 27 go | advmod |
| 29 | against | against | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 go | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | shall · passive | comrade | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | these | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stand up | shall | old knights | against this heathen man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against man=Location | ||||
| 4 | go | future | no one | against knight; forth, indeed property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against he=Location |
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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