Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 28
Well I mind me of the day when a voice that seemed to come from heaven bade King Charles give thee to a valiant captain; and forthwith the good King girded it on my side.
Who acts: I, voice, King, good King · What happens: mind, seem, come, give, forthwith, gird · To what, where: me, heaven bade, thee, voice, side
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Death of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, voice, King, good King), 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 | INTJ | _ | 3 mind | discourse |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 mind | nsubj |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 mind | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mind | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 seemed | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 bade | case |
| 16 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bade | compound |
| 17 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 give | nsubj |
| 19 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 King | flat |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bade | acl:relcl |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 captain | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 captain | det |
| 24 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 captain | amod |
| 25 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 forthwith | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 forthwith | cc |
| 28 | forthwith | forthwith | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 King | det |
| 30 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 King | amod |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 girded | nsubj |
| 32 | girded | gird | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 forthwith | ccomp |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 girded | obj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 side | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 side | nmod:poss |
| 36 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 girded | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | present | I | me | day | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | seem | past | a voice | that nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | a voice not said here | heaven bade | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bade=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | give | present | King | heaven bade not said here | thee | to a valiant captain | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Theme to captain=Recipient | ||
| 5 | forthwith | past | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | gird | past | the good King | voice | my side | 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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