Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 88
That is Oliver, son of Reyner, the same that has vanquished Fierabras your brother; that yonder is Gerard of Montdidier, and this William the Scot.
Who acts: That · What happens: be, vanquish · To what, where: Oliver son, Fierabras, Gerard
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 (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 son | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | cop |
| 3 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | compound |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Reyner | case |
| 7 | Reyner | Reyner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 same | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 same | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 son | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 vanquished | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 vanquished | aux |
| 13 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 same | ccomp |
| 14 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 vanquished | obj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 vanquished | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 Gerard | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 Gerard | nsubj |
| 19 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 21 Gerard | advmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Gerard | cop |
| 21 | Gerard | Gerard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Montdidier | case |
| 23 | Montdidier | Montdidier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Gerard | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 William | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 William | cc |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 William | det |
| 27 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Gerard | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Scot | det |
| 29 | Scot | Scot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 William | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | Oliver son | of Reyner | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | That not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | vanquish | present · perfect | that | Fierabras | your brother obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | that | Gerard and this William | of Montdidier; this William conj; yonder property | tree 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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