Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 98
And the French cried when they saw it, "Now what shall we do?
Who acts: French, trumpets, we · What happens: cry, see, do · To what, where: French · 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 (French, trumpets, 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 | _ | 4 cried | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 French | det |
| 3 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 saw | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 11 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 do | advmod |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 do | obj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the French | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | past | trumpets = trumpet | French | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | shall | we | now | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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