Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 107
These Frenchmen are easy to conquer," he cried. "
Who acts: Frenchmen, horse · What happens: be, conquer, cry
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frenchmen, horse), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 Frenchmen | det |
| 2 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 easy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | cop |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 conquer | mark |
| 6 | conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easy | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 conquer | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this Frenchmen | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conquer | to-infinitive | this Frenchmen not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | horse | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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