Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 120
Thereupon he called a halt, "for," said he, "if my eyes fail me not, this is Richard of Normandy.
Who acts: army, eyes, this · What happens: call, say, not fail, be · To what, where: halt, army, Richard · 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 (army, eyes, this), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 halt | det |
| 5 | halt | halt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 called | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | parataxis |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fail | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 fail | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 fail | mark |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fail | nsubj |
| 18 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 fail | obj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 fail | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Richard | punct |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 Richard | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Richard | cop |
| 24 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fail | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Normandy | case |
| 26 | Normandy | Normandy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Richard | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | army | a halt | thereupon property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent halt=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | army | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not fail a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | my eyes | army | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | this | Richard | of Normandy | tree rules |
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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