Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 89
The Duke said, "Think you, Sir Roland, that I am of estate so poor that I will serve as your porter?
Who acts: Duke · What happens: say, think, be, serve · To what, where: you · 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 (Duke), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Duke | det |
| 2 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Think | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Think | punct |
| 6 | Think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 Think | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sir | punct |
| 9 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Think | vocative |
| 10 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sir | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 estate | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 estate | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 estate | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 estate | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 estate | case |
| 16 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Think | parataxis |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 poor | advmod |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 estate | amod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 serve | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 serve | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 serve | aux |
| 22 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 poor | advcl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 porter | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 porter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 serve | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the Duke | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | infinitive | you | Sir vocative | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the Duke = duke | of estate | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | serve in a quote | future | the Duke = duke | as your porter | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as porter=Attribute |
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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