Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 72
When Ogier the Dane heard this, he said to his comrades, "Hark to this noble damsel, how bravely she bears herself.
Who acts: Ogier, damsel · What happens: hear, say, bear · To what, where: this, comrades, damsel · 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 (Ogier, damsel), 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 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Ogier | Ogier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Dane | det |
| 4 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ogier | appos |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | 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 comrades | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 12 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hark | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hark | punct |
| 15 | Hark | Hark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 comrades | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 damsel | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 damsel | det |
| 18 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 damsel | amod |
| 19 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Hark | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bears | punct |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 bravely | advmod |
| 22 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 24 bears | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bears | nsubj |
| 24 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Hark | appos |
| 25 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 bears | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Ogier | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ogier | Ogier's comrades Hark to this noble damsel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to comrade=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | bear in a quote | damsel | damsel | bravely 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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