Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 79
You speak truly, lady," cried William the Scot; "you shall not find his peer for three hundred miles and more."
Who acts: You, William · What happens: speak, cry, not find · To what, where: lady, peer · 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 (You, William), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 2 speak | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 speak | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 speak | conj |
| 9 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Scot | det |
| 11 | Scot | Scot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 William | appos |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 find | advmod |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 peer | nmod:poss |
| 19 | peer | peer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 miles | case |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 hundred | compound |
| 22 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 miles | nummod |
| 23 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 find | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 more | cc |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 miles | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | You | lady | truly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | William | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not find | shall | you | William's peer | for hundred miles | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent peer=Theme for mile=Beneficiary |
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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