Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 71
Now choose me eleven of your nobles, and we will fight with the Twelve Peers of France."
Who acts: you, we · What happens: choose, fight · To what, where: eleven, me
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: who acts (you, we), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 choose | advmod |
| 2 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 choose | obj |
| 4 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 choose | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 nobles | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 7 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eleven | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fight | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fight | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 fight | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fight | aux |
| 12 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 choose | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 Peers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Peers | det |
| 15 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 Peers | nummod |
| 16 | Peers | Peer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 fight | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 France | case |
| 18 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Peers | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 choose | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | imperative | you not said here | eleven of your nobles | me | now | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary eleven=Theme | ||
| 2 | fight | future | we | with the Twelve Peers of France | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with peer=Co-Agent |
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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