Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 87
Maragonde said to the maiden, "Madam, I know these Frenchmen well.
Who acts: Maragonde · What happens: say, know · To what, where: maiden, Frenchmen · 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 (Maragonde), 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 | Maragonde | Maragonde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 maiden | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Madam | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Madam | punct |
| 8 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 maiden | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 Frenchmen | det |
| 13 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 know | obj |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 know | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Maragonde | the maiden and Madam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maiden=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | Maragonde | this Frenchmen | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer frenchman=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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