Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 67
And when he had possessed himself of it, he said, "King of Alexandria, now the time of reckoning has come.
Who acts: god, time · What happens: possess, say, come · To what, where: god · 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 (god, time), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 possessed | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 possessed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 possessed | aux |
| 5 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 possessed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 himself | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 possessed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 King | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 King | punct |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Alexandria | case |
| 16 | Alexandria | Alexandria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 King | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 come | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 reckoning | case |
| 22 | reckoning | reckoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 time | nmod |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | past · perfect · passive | god | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | god | King of Alexandria ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · perfect | the time of reckoning | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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