Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 73
My lord nephew," said he, "we will go together, you and I--between us we shall win this victory.
Who acts: lord nephew, we · What happens: say, go together, win · To what, where: victory · 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: who acts (lord nephew, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nephew | compound |
| 3 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nephew | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nephew | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 you | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 go | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 I | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 you | conj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 win | punct |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 win | obl |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 win | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 win | aux |
| 23 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | advcl |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 victory | det |
| 25 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 win | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | My lord nephew | nephew nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go together | future | we | you parataxis; together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | win | shall | we | this victory | between us | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=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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