Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 96
Now there is a certain knight in France whom I have long loved, Guy of Burgundy by name, he is the goodliest man that ever I saw, and is of the kindred of Charlemagne and of Roland.
Who acts: certain knight, I, Guy · What happens: be, love, see · To what, where: certain knight, goodliest man
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 (certain knight, I, Guy), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 is | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 knight | det |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knight | amod |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 France | case |
| 8 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 knight | nmod |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 loved | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 loved | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 loved | aux |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 loved | advmod |
| 13 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 knight | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Guy | punct |
| 15 | Guy | Guy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 loved | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Burgundy | case |
| 17 | Burgundy | Burgundy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Guy | nmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 name | case |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loved | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 man | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 man | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 man | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | goodliest | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 saw | obj |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 saw | advmod |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 man | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 kindred | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 kindred | cc |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 kindred | cop |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 kindred | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 kindred | det |
| 35 | kindred | kindred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 saw | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Charlemagne | case |
| 37 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 kindred | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 Roland | cc |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Roland | case |
| 40 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Charlemagne | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a certain knight in France | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | love | present · perfect | I | a certain knight in France | by name; Guy of Burgundy obj; long property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | Guy | the goodliest man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past | I | the goodliest man | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | is | present | I not said here | of the kindred; of Charlemagne and Roland | 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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