Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 22
Let us sally forth from the Tower, and assault the Saracens with all our might, and while they are busied with us then shall Duke Richard steal away, for he well knows the country."
Who acts: you, Duke · What happens: let, assault, busy, steal away, know · To what, where: us, Tower, Saracens, country
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 (you, Duke), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | sally | sally | ADV | _ | 4 forth | advmod |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 1 Let | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Tower | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tower | det |
| 7 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 assault | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 assault | cc |
| 10 | assault | assault | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Saracens | det |
| 12 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 assault | obj |
| 13 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 16 might | mark |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 might | det:predet |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 might | nmod:poss |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 assault | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 busied | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 busied | cc |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 busied | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 busied | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 busied | aux:pass |
| 22 | busied | busy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 us | case |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 busied | obl |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 steal | advmod |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 steal | aux |
| 27 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 steal | nsubj |
| 28 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Duke | flat |
| 29 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 busied | advcl |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 steal | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 knows | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 knows | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 knows | nsubj |
| 34 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 knows | advmod |
| 35 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 country | det |
| 37 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 knows | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | the Tower | forth property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||
| 2 | assault | infinitive | you not said here | the Saracens | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saracen=Patient | ||||
| 3 | busy | present · passive | Saracens = saracen | with us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | steal away | shall | Duke | then | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | know | present | Duke | the country | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus |
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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