Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 44
Well done, Sons of France!" cried Turpin the Archbishop, when he saw them lay on in such sort.
Who acts: done Sons, Count, Sons · What happens: do, cry, see, lay on · To what, where: Archbishop, Sons, such sort
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 (done Sons, Count, Sons), 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 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 done | advmod |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Sons | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 4 | Sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 France | case |
| 6 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sons | nmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sons | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sons | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Turpin | Turpin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | flat |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Archbishop | det |
| 12 | Archbishop | Archbishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 saw | xcomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 lay | compound:prt |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sort | case |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sort | amod |
| 22 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | done Sons of France | the Archbishop | Turpin flat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | Count | Sons = son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lay on in a quote | infinitive | Sons = son not said here | such sort | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sort=Destination |
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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