Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 14
But Oliver answered him fiercely, "Enough of these idle words; when we come to fight together you shall see that I am no dead man.
Who acts: Oliver, we, Fierabras · What happens: answer, come, fight, see, be · To what, where: Fierabras, dead man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver, we, Fierabras), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | obj |
| 5 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 3 answered | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Enough | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Enough | punct |
| 8 | Enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 words | det |
| 11 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 words | amod |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Enough | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 come | advmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 fight | mark |
| 18 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 come | xcomp |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 fight | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fight | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 man | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 man | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 man | cop |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 man | det |
| 27 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 man | amod |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Oliver | Fierabras | fiercely property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fight in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | together property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | shall | Fierabras | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | Oliver | no dead man | tree rules |
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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