Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 92
Charles of France," he said, "come as quickly as you may, many a gallant knight have you lost in Roncesvalles.
Who acts: Charles · What happens: say, come, lose · To what, where: many, Roncesvalles · 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 (Charles), 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 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 France | case |
| 3 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Charles | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Charles | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Charles | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 quickly | advmod |
| 12 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 may | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 may | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 quickly | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lost | punct |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 knight | det |
| 19 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 knight | amod |
| 20 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 lost | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 lost | nsubj |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 come | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Roncesvalles | case |
| 25 | Roncesvalles | Roncesvalles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 lost | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Charles of France | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lose | present · perfect · passive | many | Roncesvalles | a gallant knight nsubj:pass; you nsubj | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/34/92/