Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 44
But when he had bound them again as best he could, he said to Garin his squire, "Come, bring me my arms, for I will go out and meet this pagan."
Who acts: King, bound best · What happens: bind, say, come, bring, go out, meet · To what, where: wounds, squire, Garin, arms, bound best, pagan · 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, bound best), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 best | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 bound | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bound | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bound | aux |
| 5 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 best | amod |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bound | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 bound | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 best | advmod |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 said | nsubj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 could | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 best | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 best | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Garin | case |
| 16 | Garin | Garin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 squire | nmod:poss |
| 18 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Come | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Come | punct |
| 21 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bring | punct |
| 23 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Come | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 bring | obj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 arms | nmod:poss |
| 26 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bring | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 go | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 go | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 go | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 go | aux |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 bring | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADV | _ | 31 go | advmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 meet | cc |
| 34 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 go | conj |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 pagan | det |
| 36 | pagan | pagan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 meet | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 Come | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | past · perfect | King | wounds = wound | again | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | bound best | King's squire | Garin | King nsubj | tree rules | ||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | infinitive | my arms | bound best = good | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination arm=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go out in a quote | future | bound best = good | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | meet in a quote | infinitive | bound best = good not said here | this pagan | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pagan=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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