Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 32
Therefore, coming into the hall, she saluted her father, and said to him, "Who are these knights that are set yonder by themselves?"
Who acts: Sortibrant, knights · What happens: come, salute, say, be, set · To what, where: hall, father, Admiral, knights · 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 (Sortibrant, knights), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 coming | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 saluted | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coming | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 coming | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saluted | nsubj |
| 9 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saluted | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saluted | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knights | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 knights | punct |
| 19 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 knights | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 knights | cop |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 knights | det |
| 22 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 set | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 set | aux:pass |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 knights | acl:relcl |
| 26 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 25 set | advmod |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 themselves | case |
| 28 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 set | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 saluted | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 saluted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | Sortibrant not said here | the hall | therefore property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | salute | past | Sortibrant | Sortibrant's father | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Sortibrant not said here | Admiral | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | this knights | Who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | set in a quote | present · passive | knights = knight | this knights | yonder property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient subject=Result |
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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