Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 7
When she came to herself she cried aloud with a lamentable voice: "Lords of France, if Guy be not given back to me I will give up this Tower to my father before two days are over."
Who acts: Roland · What happens: come, cry, not give back, give up, be · To what, where: Roland, Guy, Tower · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Roland), 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 | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 herself | case |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 7 cried | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 voice | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 11 | lamentable | lamentable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voice | amod |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lords | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lords | punct |
| 15 | Lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 voice | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 France | case |
| 17 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lords | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 given | punct |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 given | mark |
| 20 | Guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 given | aux:pass |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 given | advmod |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cried | conj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 me | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 given | obl |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 give | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 give | aux |
| 29 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 given | parataxis |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 give | compound:prt |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 Tower | det |
| 32 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 give | iobj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 father | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 father | nmod:poss |
| 35 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 give | obl |
| 36 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 40 over | mark |
| 37 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 days | nummod |
| 38 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 over | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 over | cop |
| 40 | over | over | ADV | _ | 29 give | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Roland | Roland | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herself=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Roland | with a lamentable voice and Lords of France; aloud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not give back a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive · passive | Guy | Roland | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | give up in a quote | future | Roland | this Tower | to my father | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tower=Theme to father=Recipient | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Roland not said here | day | over property | tree rules |
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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