Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 77
Sortibrant said to him, "Let every man that is here present make himself ready for battle and let all the siege engines be prepared, and all the trumpeters stand prepared to blow a great blast on their trumpets.
Who acts: Sortibrant, man, siege engines, trumpeters · What happens: say, let, be, make, stand, prepare · To what, where: Admiral, man, siege engines, great blast, trumpets · 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 (Sortibrant, man, siege engines, trumpeters), 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 | Sortibrant | Sortibrant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 7 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Let | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 present | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 present | cop |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 present | advmod |
| 13 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | acl:relcl |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Let | xcomp |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 make | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 battle | case |
| 18 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ready | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 let | cc |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Let | conj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 engines | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 engines | det |
| 23 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 engines | compound |
| 24 | engines | engine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 let | obj |
| 25 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 26 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 be | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stand | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 stand | cc |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 trumpeters | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 trumpeters | det |
| 31 | trumpeters | trumpeter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 stand | nsubj |
| 32 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | advcl |
| 33 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 stand | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 blow | mark |
| 35 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 prepared | xcomp |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 blast | det |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 blast | amod |
| 38 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 blow | obj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 trumpets | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 trumpets | nmod:poss |
| 41 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 blow | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sortibrant | Admiral | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | every man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | every man | here | present property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make in a quote | infinitive | every man not said here | Admiral | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product | |||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | all siege engines | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | be in a quote | infinitive | all siege engines not said here | prepared property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | stand in a quote | present | all trumpeters | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | prepare in a quote | participle | all trumpeters not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 9 | blow not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | all trumpeters not said here | a great blast | trumpeters's trumpets | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient |
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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