Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 103
The Emir brings against you a great army from the land of Arabia.
Who acts: Emir · What happens: bring · To what, where: great army, land
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emir), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emir | det |
| 2 | Emir | Emir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | nsubj |
| 3 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 brings | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 army | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 army | amod |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Arabia | case |
| 13 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 land | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | the Emir | a great army | the land of Arabia | against you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme against you=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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