Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 104

There are twenty thousand of us," said Ganelon, "that have sworn not to go any further."

Who acts: twenty thousand · What happens: be, say, swear, not go · To what, where: Ganelon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twenty thousand), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 thousand	compound
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 are	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 us	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thousand	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sworn	nsubj:pass
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Ganelon	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Ganelon	punct
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sworn	nsubj:pass
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sworn	aux
15	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 go	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sworn	xcomp
19	any	any	ADV	_	20 further	advmod
20	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 go	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	twenty thousand of us		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	swear	present · perfect · passive		Ganelon		that nsubj:pass	tree rules
4	not go	to-infinitive				far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 104

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 104