Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 7
Then he cried with a very loud and terrible voice, "King of Paris, send out to me your strongest and bravest knight, be he Roland, or Oliver, or Thierry, or Ogier the Dane, that he may fight with me.
Who acts: man · What happens: cry, send out, be, fight · To what, where: King, strongest knight, man, Roland · 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 (man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 voice | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 loud | advmod |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voice | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 terrible | cc |
| 9 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 loud | conj |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 King | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 King | punct |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Paris | case |
| 15 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 send | punct |
| 17 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cried | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 send | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 send | obl |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 knight | nmod:poss |
| 22 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 knight | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bravest | cc |
| 24 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 strongest | conj |
| 25 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 send | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Roland | punct |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 Roland | cop |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 Roland | nsubj |
| 29 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 send | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Oliver | punct |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 Oliver | cc |
| 32 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Thierry | punct |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 Thierry | cc |
| 35 | Thierry | Thierry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Oliver | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Ogier | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 Ogier | cc |
| 38 | Ogier | Ogier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Oliver | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Dane | det |
| 40 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Ogier | appos |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 fight | punct |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 fight | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 fight | nsubj |
| 44 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 fight | aux |
| 45 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cried | conj |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 me | case |
| 47 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 fight | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | man | King of Paris | then | with a loud voice; Oliver or Thierry or Ogier obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme | ||
| 2 | send out in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | your strongest knight | man | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knight=Theme to i=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | man | Roland | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fight in a quote | may | man | with man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/16/7/