Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 8
See, here is his sword; 'tis a noble spoil that I shall carry back with me to Arabia."
Who acts: you, noble spoil · What happens: see, be, ti, carry back · To what, where: sword, noble spoil, Arabia
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 (you, noble spoil), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sword | punct |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sword | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sword | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 See | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 tis | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 tis | punct |
| 9 | tis | ti | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 spoil | det |
| 11 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spoil | amod |
| 12 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tis | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 carry | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 carry | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 carry | aux |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 spoil | acl:relcl |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 carry | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 carry | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Arabia | case |
| 21 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 carry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Roland's sword | here | Roland nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ti | present | a noble spoil | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | carry back | shall | a noble spoil | Arabia | with me; I nsubj | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to arabia=Destination |
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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