Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 22
This being done, he said to Oliver, "Tell me now your name and country, and mind that you say nothing that is false."
Who acts: Balan, Oliver, your · What happens: do, say, tell, be, name · To what, where: This, Oliver, name, Balan, mind · 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 (Balan, Oliver, your), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Oliver | case |
| 8 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tell | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tell | punct |
| 11 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Tell | iobj |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 name | advmod |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Tell | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 country | cc |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 name | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 nothing | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 nothing | cc |
| 20 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nothing | nmod:poss |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 say | obj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 say | nsubj |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 mind | acl:relcl |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 Tell | parataxis |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 false | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 false | cop |
| 27 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tell | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Balan | Oliver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to oliver=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | your name and country | Balan | nothing parataxis | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient name=Topic | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Oliver | mind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | false property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | name in a quote | your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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