Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 5
The Barons answered, "Sire, let us consider the matter by ourselves."
Who acts: Barons, Sire, us · What happens: answer, let, consider · To what, where: us, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barons, Sire, us), 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 Barons | det |
| 2 | Barons | Baron | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sire | punct |
| 6 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sire | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 matter | det |
| 12 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 consider | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 ourselves | case |
| 14 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 consider | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Barons | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | Sire | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | consider in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | the matter | by ourselves | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent matter=Attribute |
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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