Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 15

When the Admiral saw him, he said, "You are like to Richard of Normandy, the same that slew my uncle Corsuble.

Who acts: Admiral, Richard, You · What happens: see, say, be, slay · To what, where: Richard, uncle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Admiral, Richard, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Admiral	det
3	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Richard	punct
11	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 Richard	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 Richard	cop
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 Richard	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Richard	case
15	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Normandy	case
17	Normandy	Normandy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Richard	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 same	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 same	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Richard	appos
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 slew	nsubj
22	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 same	acl:relcl
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 uncle	nmod:poss
24	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 slew	obj
25	Corsuble	Corsuble	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 uncle	appos
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Admiral	Richard		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Richard			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	You		like Richard; of Normandy	tree rules
4	slay in a quote	past		my uncle		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Patient

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 15