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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

nsubjpunctpunctnsubjcopdetamodparataxispunctconjcasenmodpunctconjcaseoblpunctnmod:possnsubjcopdetconjpunctccdetnmod:possnsubjobjnsubjacl:relclcopamodconjadvmodpunctccnsubjauxparataxisobjcasedetnmodpunctadvcladvmodmarkadvclobjccconjpunctpunctrootOliverPROPNansweredVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTIPRONamAUXaDETpoorADJknightNOUN,PUNCTEugenesNOUNbyADPnameNOUN,PUNCTbornVERBinADPLorrainePROPN,PUNCTmyPRONfatherNOUNbeingAUXaDETyeomanNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheseDETmyPRONcomradesNOUNwhomPRONyouPRONseeVERBareAUXpoorADJknightsNOUNalsoADV,PUNCTandCCONJwePRONhaveAUXtakenVERBserviceNOUNwithADPtheDETKingPROPN,PUNCThopingVERBthusADVtoPARTgetVERBadvancementNOUNandCCONJrewardNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OliverOliverPROPNNumber=Sing2 answerednsubj
2answeredanswerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3,,PUNCT_2 answeredpunct
4""PUNCT_9 knightpunct
5IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs9 knightnsubj
6ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 knightcop
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 knightdet
8poorpoorADJDegree=Pos9 knightamod
9knightknightNOUNNumber=Sing2 answeredparataxis
10,,PUNCT_11 Eugenespunct
11EugeneseugeneNOUNNumber=Plur9 knightconj
12bybyADP_13 namecase
13namenameNOUNNumber=Sing11 Eugenesnmod
14,,PUNCT_15 bornpunct
15bornbearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part9 knightconj
16ininADP_17 Lorrainecase
17LorraineLorrainePROPNNumber=Sing15 bornobl
18,,PUNCT_23 yeomanpunct
19mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 fathernmod:poss
20fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing23 yeomannsubj
21beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part23 yeomancop
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 yeomandet
23yeomanyeomanNOUNNumber=Sing9 knightconj
24,,PUNCT_34 knightspunct
25andandCCONJ_34 knightscc
26thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem28 comradesdet
27mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 comradesnmod:poss
28comradescomradeNOUNNumber=Plur34 knightsnsubj
29whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel31 seeobj
30youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs31 seensubj
31seeseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 comradesacl:relcl
32arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin34 knightscop
33poorpoorADJDegree=Pos34 knightsamod
34knightsknightNOUNNumber=Plur9 knightconj
35alsoalsoADV_34 knightsadvmod
36,,PUNCT_40 takenpunct
37andandCCONJ_40 takencc
38wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs40 takennsubj
39havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin40 takenaux
40takentakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 answeredparataxis
41serviceserviceNOUNNumber=Sing40 takenobj
42withwithADP_44 Kingcase
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 Kingdet
44KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing41 servicenmod
45,,PUNCT_46 hopingpunct
46hopinghopeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part40 takenadvcl
47thusthusADV_46 hopingadvmod
48totoPART_49 getmark
49getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf46 hopingadvcl
50advancementadvancementNOUNNumber=Sing49 getobj
51andandCCONJ_52 rewardcc
52rewardrewardNOUNNumber=Sing50 advancementconj
53..PUNCT_2 answeredpunct
54""PUNCT_2 answeredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1answer speech: assertpastOlivertree rules
2is a in a quotepresentOlivera poor knight and Eugenes by name and a yeoman and poor knightsEugenes by name conjtree rules
3bear in a quoteparticipleOliver not said hereLorrainevn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4is a in a quotegerundmy fathera yeomantree rules
5see in a quotepresentyoumy comradesvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
6is a in a quotepresentmy comradespoor knightstree rules
7take in a quotepresent · perfectweservicewith the Kingvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme
8hope in a quotegerundwe not said herethus propertyvn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
9get in a quoteto-infinitivewe not said hereadvancement and rewardvn 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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