Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 55
Well done!" cried Roland; "you are a true brother of mine. '
Who acts: you · What happens: do, cry, be · To what, where: true brother
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), 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 | 5 cried | advcl |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | flat |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 brother | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 brother | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 brother | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 brother | det |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brother | amod |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mine | case |
| 15 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | Roland flat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | you | a true brother | of mine | 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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