Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 62
The Saracens stood about, and made a great lamentation, so that the Barons began to take heart again, and Floripas, being well acquainted with the Saracen tongue, said, "Now I perceive the truth.
Who acts: Saracens, Barons, Floripas · What happens: stand, make, begin, take, acquaint, say · To what, where: great lamentation, heart, Floripas, truth · 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 (Saracens, Barons, Floripas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Saracens | det |
| 2 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lamentation | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lamentation | amod |
| 10 | lamentation | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 began | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | fixed |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Barons | det |
| 15 | Barons | Baron | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 began | nsubj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 take | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 said | cc |
| 23 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 said | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 acquainted | punct |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 acquainted | aux:pass |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 acquainted | advmod |
| 27 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 Floripas | acl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 tongue | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tongue | det |
| 30 | Saracen | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 tongue | compound |
| 31 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 acquainted | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Floripas | punct |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 perceive | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 perceive | punct |
| 36 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 perceive | advmod |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 perceive | nsubj |
| 38 | perceive | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 said | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 truth | det |
| 40 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 perceive | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Saracens | about property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | past | a great lamentation | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lamentation=Product | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | the Barons | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | the Barons not said here | heart | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | |||
| 5 | acquaint speech: other | gerund · passive | Floripas not said here | with the Saracen tongue; well property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient» | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Floripas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | perceive in a quote | present | Floripas | the truth | now | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer truth=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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