Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 43
So spake the Count Thierry, and all the men of France cried with one voice, "It is well said."
Who acts: you, men · What happens: speak, cry, say · To what, where: Count Thierry, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, men), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Thierry | det |
| 4 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Thierry | compound |
| 5 | Thierry | Thierry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 men | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 France | case |
| 12 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 men | nmod |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spake | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 voice | nummod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 19 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | aux:pass |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 said | advmod |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 cried | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the Count Thierry | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | all men of France | with one voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · passive | voice | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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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