Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 23
Whom shall I place to command the rearguard?
What happens: command · To what, where: rearguard, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 place | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 place | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 place | nsubj |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 command | mark |
| 6 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 place | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rearguard | det |
| 8 | rearguard | rearguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 command | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | to-infinitive | the rearguard | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent rearguard=Eventuality |
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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