Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 60
What is this," they said, "that Oliver, who was hurt well-nigh to death, would now go forth to battle!"
Who acts: this, Oliver · What happens: be, say, hurt, go, battle · To what, where: Oliver · 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 (this, Oliver), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oliver | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oliver | punct |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 Oliver | det |
| 11 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 go | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hurt | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 hurt | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hurt | aux:pass |
| 15 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Oliver | acl |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 nigh | advmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 well | punct |
| 18 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 15 hurt | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nigh | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oliver | punct |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 go | aux |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 go | advmod |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 25 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 24 go | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 battle | mark |
| 27 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 go | advcl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Oliver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hurt | past · passive | that Oliver | nigh property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | would | that Oliver | now | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | battle | to-infinitive | that Oliver not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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