Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 95
And when they were satisfied, she said to them, "My lords, I know full well who you are, that this, for instance, is Sir Oliver who vanquished Fierabras my brother; yet I have showed you this great kindness, nor this without danger to myself.
Who acts: knights, draught, instance, Sir · What happens: be, say, know, vanquish, have, show · To what, where: lords, knights, Sir, Fierabras, great kindness · 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 (knights, draught, instance, Sir), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 satisfied | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 satisfied | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 satisfied | cop |
| 5 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 satisfied | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lords | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 lords | punct |
| 13 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lords | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 know | xcomp |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 full | advmod |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 full | advcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 who | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 who | cop |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 this | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 this | mark |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 said | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 instance | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 instance | case |
| 28 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Sir | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 instance | punct |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 Sir | cop |
| 31 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 32 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Sir | flat |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 vanquished | nsubj |
| 34 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 Sir | acl:relcl |
| 35 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 vanquished | obj |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 brother | nmod:poss |
| 37 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 vanquished | obj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 have | punct |
| 39 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 41 have | advmod |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 have | nsubj |
| 41 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 42 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 have | ccomp |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 showed | iobj |
| 44 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 kindness | det |
| 45 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 kindness | amod |
| 46 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 showed | obj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 danger | punct |
| 48 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 51 danger | cc |
| 49 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 danger | det |
| 50 | without | without | ADP | _ | 51 danger | case |
| 51 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 have | obl |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 myself | case |
| 53 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 51 danger | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | knights = knight | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | draught | My lords | knights = knight | this obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | draught | full property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | knights = knight | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | instance | Sir | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | vanquish in a quote | past | Sir | Fierabras | my brother obj | tree rules | |||
| 7 | have in a quote | present | draught | yet | without this danger to myself | tree rules | |||
| 8 | show in a quote | past | draught not said here | this great kindness | knights = knight | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kindness=Topic |
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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