Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 4
Are you come," said he, "ye robbers of France, to fight with us to-day?
Who acts: you, Grievous · What happens: be, say, robber, fight · 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 (you, Grievous), 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | cop |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | advcl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 robbers | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 robbers | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 robbers | punct |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 robbers | compound |
| 11 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 France | case |
| 13 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 robbers | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fight | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fight | mark |
| 16 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 robbers | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fight | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 to | punct |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fight | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | come property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | robber | Grievous | of France | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | Grievous not said here | day | with us | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with we=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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