Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 50
Where is your sword Hautclere, with its hilt of gold and its pommel of crystal?" "
What happens: be · To what, where: sword
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: 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 sword | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sword | cop |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sword | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Hautclere | Hautclere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sword | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hilt | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hilt | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hilt | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sword | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hilt | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pommel | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pommel | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pommel | pommel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hilt | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 crystal | case |
| 16 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pommel | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 pommel | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 pommel | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hilt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | your sword | your nmod:poss; Hautclere appos; sword's hilt of gold and gold's pommel of crystal appos | tree rules |
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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