Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 96
He sent, therefore, for Sortibrant and Brullant, and said to them, "I see that the Frenchmen are coming to fight.
Who acts: Admiral, I, Frenchmen · What happens: send, say, see, come, fight · To what, where: Brullant · 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 (Admiral, I, Frenchmen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 therefore | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 sent | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sortibrant | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Sortibrant | case |
| 7 | Sortibrant | Sortibrant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Brullant | cc |
| 9 | Brullant | Brullant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sortibrant | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 coming | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Frenchmen | det |
| 21 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 coming | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 coming | aux |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 see | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 fight | mark |
| 25 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 coming | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Admiral | for Sortibrant and Brullant; therefore property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Brullant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · progressive | the Frenchmen | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fight in a quote | to-infinitive | the Frenchmen not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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