Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 8
Then Roland comforted her saying, "Be not troubled, lady, you shall see Sir Guy again in no long time.
Who acts: Roland, you · What happens: comfort, not be, see, say · To what, where: saying, Sir Guy · 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, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 comforted | advmod |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 comforted | nsubj |
| 3 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 saying | nmod:poss |
| 5 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comforted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 troubled | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 troubled | punct |
| 8 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 troubled | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 troubled | advmod |
| 10 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 comforted | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lady | punct |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 troubled | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comforted | conj |
| 17 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Guy | compound |
| 18 | Guy | Guy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 see | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 time | det |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comforted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past | Roland | Roland's saying | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is in a quote | infinitive | lady conj; troubled property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | shall | you | Sir Guy | again; time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guy=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | say | Roland | nom saying «communication transitive»: poss=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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