Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 77
So spake the Duke of Bavaria, and all the men of France cried out, "The Duke has spoken well."
Who acts: you, men · What happens: speak, cry out · To what, where: Duke · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, men), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Duke | det |
| 4 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Bavaria | case |
| 6 | Bavaria | Bavaria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Duke | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 men | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 men | det |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 France | case |
| 13 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 men | nmod |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spake | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 cried | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spoken | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 spoken | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Duke | det |
| 19 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 spoken | aux |
| 21 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cried | conj |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 spoken | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the Duke of Bavaria | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | all men of France | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the Duke | well property | 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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