Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 40
Good father," answered Floripas, "it is now time for dinner.
Who acts: Good father, death · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: Floripas, time
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 (Good father, death), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 father | amod |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 father | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 father | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 time | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 time | cop |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 time | advmod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 dinner | case |
| 14 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Good father | Floripas | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent floripas=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | death | time | now | for dinner | 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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