Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 47
Said the Admiral, "You have come back with good speed.
Who acts: Admiral, You · What happens: say, come back · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Admiral, You), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Admiral | det |
| 3 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Said | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 speed | case |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 speed | amod |
| 12 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Admiral | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come back in a quote | present · perfect | You | with good speed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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