Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 69
When Guy of Burgundy saw this, he said to his fellows, "It is now three days since we had any bread. '
Who acts: Guy, castle, we · What happens: see, say, be, have · To what, where: this, fellows, three days, bread · 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 (Guy, castle, we), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Guy | Guy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Burgundy | case |
| 4 | Burgundy | Burgundy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Guy | nmod |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 fellows | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fellows | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 days | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 days | punct |
| 15 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 days | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 days | cop |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 three | advmod |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 days | nummod |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fellows | appos |
| 20 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 22 had | mark |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 bread | det |
| 24 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Guy of Burgundy | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Guy | Guy's fellows | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fellow=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | castle | three days | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | we | any bread | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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