Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 100
And they have neither stones nor iron to cast at us."
Who acts: Frenchmen, stones · What happens: have, cast · To what, where: stones
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frenchmen, stones), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 have | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 stones | cc:preconj |
| 5 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 iron | cc |
| 7 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stones | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cast | mark |
| 9 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 cast | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Frenchmen = frenchman | stones nor iron | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cast | to-infinitive | stones nor iron not said here | at us | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at we=Destination |
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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