Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 138
Follow me!" he cried to his army, "I will show you the way."
Who acts: you, Emir, I · What happens: follow, cry, show · To what, where: me, army, way, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Emir, I), 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 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Follow | obj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Follow | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 army | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 army | nmod:poss |
| 9 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 show | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 show | aux |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 show | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Emir | Emir's army | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to army=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | show | future | I | the way | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic |
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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