Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 23
Oliver answered, "I am a poor knight, Eugenes by name, born in Lorraine, my father being a yeoman, and these my comrades whom you see are poor knights also, and we have taken service with the King, hoping thus to get advancement and reward."
Who acts: Oliver, father, you, comrades, we · What happens: answer, be, bear, see, take, hope · To what, where: poor knight, Lorraine, yeoman, comrades, poor knights, service · 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 (Oliver, father, you, comrades), 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 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 knight | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 knight | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 knight | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 knight | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knight | amod |
| 9 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Eugenes | punct |
| 11 | Eugenes | eugene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 knight | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 name | case |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Eugenes | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 born | punct |
| 15 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 knight | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Lorraine | case |
| 17 | Lorraine | Lorraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 born | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 yeoman | punct |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 yeoman | nsubj |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 yeoman | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 yeoman | det |
| 23 | yeoman | yeoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knight | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 knights | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 knights | cc |
| 26 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 comrades | det |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 28 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 knights | nsubj |
| 29 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 see | obj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 see | nsubj |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 comrades | acl:relcl |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 knights | cop |
| 33 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 knights | amod |
| 34 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 knight | conj |
| 35 | also | also | ADV | _ | 34 knights | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 taken | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 taken | cc |
| 38 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 taken | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 taken | aux |
| 40 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 41 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 taken | obj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 King | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 King | det |
| 44 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 service | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 hoping | punct |
| 46 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 taken | advcl |
| 47 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 46 hoping | advmod |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 get | mark |
| 49 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 hoping | advcl |
| 50 | advancement | advancement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 get | obj |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 reward | cc |
| 52 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 advancement | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Oliver | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Oliver | a poor knight and Eugenes by name and a yeoman and poor knights | Eugenes by name conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bear in a quote | participle | Oliver not said here | Lorraine | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | gerund | my father | a yeoman | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | present | you | my comrades | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | my comrades | poor knights | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | take in a quote | present · perfect | we | service | with the King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme | |||
| 8 | hope in a quote | gerund | we not said here | thus property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 9 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | advancement and reward | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer advancement=Stimulus |
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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