Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 4
O Oliver, my brother, what shall we do to send him tidings of our state?" "
Who acts: we · What happens: do, send · To what, where: Oliver, tidings
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 2 Oliver | discourse |
| 2 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oliver | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 do | obj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Oliver | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 send | mark |
| 12 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 do | xcomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 send | obj |
| 14 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 send | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 state | case |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 state | nmod:poss |
| 17 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tidings | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | shall | we | Oliver | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | to-infinitive | we not said here | tidings of our state | Oliver | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination tiding=Theme |
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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