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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 25

I thought," he cried, "that I had five of the best and bravest knights in France, and that having these I possessed, as it were, the keys of France."

Who acts: I, Balan, that, these, service · What happens: think, cry, have, possess, be · To what, where: that · 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 (I, Balan, that, these), 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

nsubjpunctpunctnsubjccomppunctpunctobjnsubjparataxisobjcasedetamodccconjnmodcasenmodpunctccnsubjccompnsubjnsubjparataxispunctcasensubjcoppunctdetoblcasenmodpunctpunctrootIPRONthoughtVERB,PUNCT"PUNCThePRONcriedVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTthatPRONIPRONhadVERBfiveNUMofADPtheDETbestADJandCCONJbravestADJknightsNOUNinADPFrancePROPN,PUNCTandCCONJthatPRONhavingVERBthesePRONIPRONpossessedVERB,PUNCTasADPitPRONwereAUX,PUNCTtheDETkeysNOUNofADPFrancePROPN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 thoughtnsubj
2thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3,,PUNCT_6 criedpunct
4""PUNCT_6 criedpunct
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 criednsubj
6criedcryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 thoughtccomp
7,,PUNCT_6 criedpunct
8""PUNCT_6 criedpunct
9thatthatPRONPronType=Rel11 hadobj
10IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs11 hadnsubj
11hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 criedparataxis
12fivefiveNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card11 hadobj
13ofofADP_18 knightscase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 knightsdet
15bestgoodADJDegree=Sup18 knightsamod
16andandCCONJ_17 bravestcc
17bravestbraveADJDegree=Sup15 bestconj
18knightsknightNOUNNumber=Plur12 fivenmod
19ininADP_20 Francecase
20FranceFrancePROPNNumber=Sing18 knightsnmod
21,,PUNCT_24 havingpunct
22andandCCONJ_24 havingcc
23thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem24 havingnsubj
24havinghaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 thoughtccomp
25thesethisPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem27 possessednsubj
26IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs27 possessednsubj
27possessedpossessVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 havingparataxis
28,,PUNCT_34 keyspunct
29asasADP_34 keyscase
30ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 keysnsubj
31werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 keyscop
32,,PUNCT_34 keyspunct
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 keysdet
34keyskeyNOUNNumber=Plur27 possessedobl
35ofofADP_36 Francecase
36FranceFrancePROPNNumber=Sing34 keysnmod
37..PUNCT_2 thoughtpunct
38""PUNCT_2 thoughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1think speech: otherpastIvn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2cry speech: express in a quotepastBalanvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3havepastIthatfive of the best knights in France objtree rules
4havegerundthatvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5possesspasttheseI nsubjvn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
6ispastserviceas the keys; of Francetree rules

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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