Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 124
Can they hold out," said Charles, "six days?
Who acts: knights, Charles · What happens: hold out, say · 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 (knights, Charles), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hold | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hold | nsubj |
| 3 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 hold | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hold | conj |
| 8 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 days | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 days | punct |
| 11 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 days | nummod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Charles | appos |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | can | knights = knight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Charles | 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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