Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 11
Tell me now where are the thousand valiant men whom you took from my army.
Who acts: you, thousand valiant men · What happens: tell, be, take · To what, where: me, thousand valiant men, army · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thousand valiant men), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 where | advmod |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 where | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thousand | det |
| 7 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 men | nummod |
| 8 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 where | nsubj |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 took | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 men | acl:relcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 army | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 army | nmod:poss |
| 15 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | thousand valiant men | now | where property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | past | you | thousand valiant men | my army | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent whom=Theme from army=Initial_Location |
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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