Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 78
After this said Floripas to Roland, "Sir Knight, remember how you promised to help me to that thing which I most desire."
Who acts: this, Roland, thing · What happens: say, remember, promise, help, desire · To what, where: Roland, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Roland, thing), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 said | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Roland | case |
| 6 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Knight | punct |
| 9 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Knight | compound |
| 10 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remember | punct |
| 12 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 Knight | parataxis |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 promised | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 promised | nsubj |
| 15 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 remember | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 help | mark |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 promised | xcomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 help | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 thing | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 thing | det |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 help | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 desire | nsubj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 desire | nsubj |
| 24 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 desire | amod |
| 25 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thing | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Knight | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Knight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | this | Roland | Floripas nsubj; Sir Knight parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to roland=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | remember in a quote | infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | Roland | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | help not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Roland not said here | me | to that thing | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | desire in a quote | that thing | I nsubj | 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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