Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 17
After Richard came the others, saying the same words, and other words like to them.
What happens: come, say · To what, where: others, same words · 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: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 Richard | case |
| 2 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 others | det |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 words | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 words | amod |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saying | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 words | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 words | cc |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 words | amod |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 words | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the others | after Richard | other words like others obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location other=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the same words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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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