Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 91
Fierabras said, "Fellow, you are not able to meet me, even were I without arms.
Who acts: Fierabras, you · What happens: say, not be, meet, be · To what, where: Fellow, Fierabras · 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 (Fierabras, you), 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 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fellow | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fellow | punct |
| 5 | Fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 able | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 able | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 able | advmod |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Fellow | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 meet | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 were | punct |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 were | advmod |
| 16 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 were | nsubj |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 19 arms | case |
| 19 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 were | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Fierabras | Fellow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | Fierabras | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | past | Fierabras | without arms | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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