Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 11
Then must we make haste, for they have robbed me of the very flower of France."
Who acts: we · What happens: make, rob · To what, where: haste, warriors
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 (we), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 make | advmod |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 robbed | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 robbed | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 robbed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 robbed | aux |
| 10 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 make | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 robbed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 flower | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flower | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 flower | advmod |
| 15 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 robbed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 France | case |
| 17 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 flower | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | must | we | haste | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product | |||
| 2 | rob | present · perfect · passive | warriors = warrior | of the flower of France; me obj | 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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