Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 45
So the porter went to the Duke and said, "There are come hither a hundred knights, with the King's eldest son at their head.
Who acts: porter · What happens: go, say, come · To what, where: hundred knights · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porter), 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 | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 porter | det |
| 3 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Duke | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Duke | det |
| 7 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 12 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 come | expl |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux:pass |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 17 hundred | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hundred | det |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 knights | nummod |
| 18 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 come | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 son | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 son | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 King | case |
| 24 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 son | amod |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 head | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 son | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the porter | to the Duke | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to duke=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the porter not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · passive | hundred knights | there | with the King's eldest son at sons's head | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: knight=Theme |
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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