Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 68
Madam," answered Roland, "he is here in this very place; there is not more than four feet of space between him and you."
Who acts: Madam, Roland · What happens: answer, be, not be · To what, where: Roland, place, four feet · 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 (Madam, Roland), 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 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Madam | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Madam | punct |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feet | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 here | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 here | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 here | cop |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 feet | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 place | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 place | advmod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 here | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 feet | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 feet | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 21 four | advmod |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 more | fixed |
| 21 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 feet | nummod |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 space | case |
| 24 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 feet | nmod |
| 25 | between | between | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 space | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 you | cc |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 him | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 feet | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Madam | Roland | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Roland | this place | here property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not is a | present | four feet | of space between Roland | 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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