Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 92
Sire," said he, "you have been in this land of Spain now seven years, and your nobles have suffered for your sake many labours and sorrows.
Who acts: Sire, you, nobles · What happens: say, be, year, suffer · To what, where: land · 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 (Sire, you, nobles), 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 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sire | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sire | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 years | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 land | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 land | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 land | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 land | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 land | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 land | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 land | det |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 he | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Spain | case |
| 15 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 land | nmod |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 years | advmod |
| 17 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 suffered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 suffered | cc |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 22 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 suffered | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 suffered | aux |
| 24 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 sake | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sake | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 suffered | obl |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 labours | amod |
| 29 | labours | labour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 sake | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sorrows | cc |
| 31 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 labours | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Sire | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present · perfect | you | this land | of Spain | tree rules | |||
| 3 | year | Sire | now | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | suffer | present · perfect | your nobles | for your sake and many labours and sorrows | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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