Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 15
Then Oliver said to Fierabras, "Now, Sir King, I must needs put you down, and this I do with much discontent.
Who acts: Oliver, this · What happens: say, need, put down, do · To what, where: Fierabras · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver, this), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Fierabras | case |
| 5 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 King | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 King | punct |
| 8 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 King | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Now | punct |
| 10 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 King | compound |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 needs | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 needs | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 needs | aux |
| 15 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 needs | xcomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 put | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 do | cc |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 do | nsubj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 discontent | case |
| 25 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 discontent | amod |
| 26 | discontent | discontent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Oliver | Fierabras | then | Sir King ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fierabras=Recipient | ||
| 2 | need in a quote | must | Oliver | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put down not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | Oliver not said here | Fierabras | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | this | with much discontent; I nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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