Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 29
Then said Lucifer, "I will teach you the manner of it," and he came near to a great fire that was in the chamber, Roland making a sign meanwhile to the Duke that he should bear with the man's way.
Who acts: Lucifer, that, chamber · What happens: say, teach, come, be, make, bear · To what, where: manner, you, great fire, chamber, sign, Duke · 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 (Lucifer, that, chamber), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Lucifer | Lucifer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 teach | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 teach | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 teach | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 teach | aux |
| 8 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 teach | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 manner | det |
| 11 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 teach | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 manner | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 teach | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 teach | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 19 | near | near | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fire | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fire | amod |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 chamber | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 chamber | cop |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 chamber | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chamber | det |
| 28 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fire | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Roland | punct |
| 30 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 chamber | appos |
| 31 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 chamber | acl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 sign | det |
| 33 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 making | obj |
| 34 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 37 Duke | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Duke | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Duke | det |
| 37 | Duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 making | obl |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 bear | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 bear | nsubj |
| 40 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 bear | aux |
| 41 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 Duke | acl |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 way | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 man | det |
| 44 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 way | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 man | case |
| 46 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bear | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Lucifer | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other in a quote | future | Lucifer | the manner of manner | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient manner=Topic | |||
| 3 | come | past | Lucifer | a great fire | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fire=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is | past | that | the chamber | Roland appos | tree rules | |||
| 5 | make | gerund | the chamber not said here | a sign | to the Duke | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product | |||
| 6 | bear | should | Lucifer | the Duke not said here | with the man's way | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duke=Patient |
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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