Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 101
But Floripas was prudent and said, "Rest awhile, my friends, for it will need much counsel before it can be seen what you had best do."
Who acts: Floripas, friend, you · What happens: be, say, need, see, have · To what, where: Rest, much counsel, friend, best do · 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 His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Floripas, friend, you), 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 | _ | 4 prudent | cc |
| 2 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 prudent | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prudent | cop |
| 4 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prudent | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rest | punct |
| 9 | Rest | Rest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 10 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 friends | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 need | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 need | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 need | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 need | aux |
| 18 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 counsel | amod |
| 20 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 need | obj |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 25 seen | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 seen | aux:pass |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 need | advcl |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 seen | obj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 what | acl:relcl |
| 29 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 do | amod |
| 30 | do | do | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prudent | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 prudent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Floripas | prudent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Floripas not said here | Rest | my friends conj; awhile property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | need in a quote | future | friend | much counsel | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot counsel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | can · passive | friend | what obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | past | you | best do | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent do=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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