Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 16
Whence come you, old man?" said he, "Tell me the truth."
Who acts: old man, truth · What happens: come, say, tell · To what, where: you, me · 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 the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, truth), 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 | Whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 come | advmod |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 come | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tell | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tell | punct |
| 13 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 Tell | iobj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 truth | det |
| 16 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Tell | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tell | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | you | whence property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | old man | man nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | the truth | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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