Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 47
And when he heard these things, he said, "Fair sir, you are my nephew; you should lodge nowhere but with me." "
Who acts: country, you · What happens: hear, say, be, lodge · To what, where: things, nephew · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 things | det |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sir | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 sir | punct |
| 12 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sir | amod |
| 13 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | vocative |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nephew | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 nephew | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 nephew | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 18 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 lodge | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 lodge | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 lodge | aux |
| 22 | lodge | lodge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 23 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 lodge | advmod |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 me | cc |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 lodge | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 lodge | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 lodge | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 lodge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | country | this things | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | country | Fair sir vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | my nephew | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | lodge in a quote | should | you | me conj; nowhere property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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