Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 93
Oliver answered, "My name is Garin, and I am a poor knight; King Charles has sent me to do battle with you; make ready, therefore, for battle."
Who acts: Oliver, name, Charles, My · What happens: answer, be, send, do, battle, make · To what, where: Garin, poor knight, 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 (Oliver, name, Charles, My), 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 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Garin | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Garin | punct |
| 5 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Garin | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Garin | cop |
| 8 | Garin | Garin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knight | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 knight | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 knight | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 knight | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 knight | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 knight | amod |
| 15 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Garin | appos |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sent | aux |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 sent | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sent | advcl |
| 24 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 do | xcomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 battle | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 make | punct |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 29 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 make | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 therefore | punct |
| 31 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 28 make | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 battle | punct |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 battle | case |
| 34 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 make | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Oliver | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | My name | Garin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Oliver | a poor knight | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | send in a quote | present · perfect | Charles King | Oliver | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Charles King not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | battle in a quote | infinitive | Charles King not said here | with you | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | make in a quote | infinitive | battle conj; ready, therefore property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 8 | name in a quote | My | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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