Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 98
Then said Sortibrant, "Bid your horns and trumpets sound again, and send your men to attack the Tower once more.
Who acts: Sortibrant, horns · What happens: say, bid, sound, send, attack · To what, where: men, 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 (Sortibrant, horns), 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 | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sortibrant | Sortibrant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bid | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bid | punct |
| 6 | Bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horns | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sound | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 trumpets | cc |
| 10 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 horns | conj |
| 11 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Bid | parataxis |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 sound | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 send | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 send | cc |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Bid | conj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 men | nmod:poss |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 send | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 attack | mark |
| 19 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 send | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Tower | det |
| 21 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 attack | obj |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 more | advmod |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 attack | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sortibrant | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bid in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | sound in a quote | present | your horns and trumpets | again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | send in a quote | infinitive | your men | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||||
| 5 | attack in a quote | to-infinitive | the Tower | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=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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