Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 95

Now tell me, Sir Garin," said he, "why Roland, or Oliver, or Ogier the Dane, who are all, men say, of high renown, have not come out against me." "

Who acts: you, high renown · What happens: tell, say, be, not come out · To what, where: Sir · 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 (you, high renown), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Sir	punct
5	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tell	iobj
6	Garin	Garin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sir	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	ccomp
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 say	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 he	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 say	punct
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 say	advmod
14	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 say	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Oliver	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 Oliver	cc
17	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Roland	nmod:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Ogier	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 Ogier	cc
20	Ogier	Ogier	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Roland	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Dane	det
22	Dane	Dane	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Ogier	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 say	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	29 say	parataxis
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 who	cop
26	all	all	ADV	_	25 are	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 who	punct
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 say	nsubj
29	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 renown	punct
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 renown	case
32	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 renown	amod
33	renown	renown	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 say	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
35	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 come	advmod
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 say	ccomp
38	out	out	ADV	_	37 come	advmod
39	against	against	ADP	_	40 me	case
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 come	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	Sir	now	me iobj	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	present					tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	high renown			Sir nsubj; Roland Oliver or Ogier nsubj; men nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not come out	present				against me; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 95

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 95