Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 152
See!" cried the Emir, "see, my son, how he is seeking for the King of the French!
Who acts: Emir · What happens: see, cry, seek · To what, where: Emir, son · 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 (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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | parataxis |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Emir | det |
| 6 | Emir | Emir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 son | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seeking | punct |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 seeking | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seeking | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 seeking | aux |
| 17 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 son | acl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 King | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 seeking | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 French | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 French | det |
| 23 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 King | nmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the Emir | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | my son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | seek | present · progressive | Emir | for the King of the French | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for king=Theme |
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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