Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 11
Nay," cried Roland, "say not so.
What happens: cry, not say · To what, where: Roland · 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: 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 4 cried | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | conj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 say | advmod |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 say | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Roland | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roland=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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