Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 27
And, turning to the Frenchmen, he cried, "Strike, friends, strike! and we shall conquer the enemy.
Who acts: Oliver, we · What happens: turn, cry, conquer · To what, where: Strike, enemy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Oliver, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cried | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turning | punct |
| 3 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Frenchmen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Frenchmen | det |
| 6 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 turning | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turning | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Strike | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Strike | punct |
| 12 | Strike | Strike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 friends | punct |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Strike | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 strike | punct |
| 16 | strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Strike | appos |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Strike | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 conquer | cc |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 conquer | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 conquer | aux |
| 21 | conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 enemy | det |
| 23 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 conquer | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | Oliver not said here | to the Frenchmen result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to frenchman=Result | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Oliver | Strike and friends | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strike=Topic | ||||
| 3 | conquer in a quote | shall | we | the enemy | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient |
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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