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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 89

King Oberon heard the blast of the horn where he sat in his city of Mommure, and he said to himself, "Doubtless my friend has need of me; I wish that I were with him and ten thousand men with me."

Who acts: King, Doubtless friend · What happens: hear, sit, say, have, wish, be · To what, where: blast, city, King, need, horn, me · 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 (King, Doubtless friend), 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

nsubjflatdetobjcasedetnmodadvmodnsubjacl:relclcasenmod:possoblcasenmodpunctccnsubjparataxiscaseoblpunctpunctcompoundnmod:possnsubjconjobjcasenmodpunctnsubjparataxismarknsubjcopcaseccompcccompoundnummodconjcasenmodpunctpunctrootKingPROPNOberonPROPNheardVERBtheDETblastNOUNofADPtheDEThornNOUNwhereADVhePRONsatVERBinADPhisPRONcityNOUNofADPMommurePROPN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONsaidVERBtoADPhimselfPRON,PUNCT"PUNCTDoubtlessPROPNmyPRONfriendNOUNhasVERBneedNOUNofADPmePRON;PUNCTIPRONwishVERBthatSCONJIPRONwereAUXwithADPhimPRONandCCONJtenNUMthousandNUMmenNOUNwithADPmePRON.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing3 heardnsubj
2OberonOberonPROPNNumber=Sing1 Kingflat
3heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 blastdet
5blastblastNOUNNumber=Sing3 heardobj
6ofofADP_8 horncase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 horndet
8hornhornNOUNNumber=Sing5 blastnmod
9wherewhereADVPronType=Rel11 satadvmod
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 satnsubj
11satsitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 hornacl:relcl
12ininADP_14 citycase
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 citynmod:poss
14citycityNOUNNumber=Sing11 satobl
15ofofADP_16 Mommurecase
16MommureMommurePROPNNumber=Sing14 citynmod
17,,PUNCT_20 saidpunct
18andandCCONJ_20 saidcc
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 saidnsubj
20saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 heardparataxis
21totoADP_22 himselfcase
22himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes20 saidobl
23,,PUNCT_28 haspunct
24""PUNCT_25 Doubtlesspunct
25DoubtlessDoubtlessPROPNNumber=Sing27 friendcompound
26mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 friendnmod:poss
27friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing28 hasnsubj
28hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 saidconj
29needneedNOUNNumber=Sing28 hasobj
30ofofADP_31 mecase
31meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs29 neednmod
32;;PUNCT_34 wishpunct
33IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs34 wishnsubj
34wishwishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 heardparataxis
35thatthatSCONJ_39 himmark
36IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs39 himnsubj
37werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin39 himcop
38withwithADP_39 himcase
39himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 wishccomp
40andandCCONJ_43 mencc
41tentenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card42 thousandcompound
42thousandthousandNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card43 mennummod
43menmanNOUNNumber=Plur39 himconj
44withwithADP_45 mecase
45meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs43 mennmod
46..PUNCT_3 heardpunct
47""PUNCT_3 heardpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpastKingthe blast of the horntree rules
2sitpastKingKing's city of Mommurevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in city=Location
3say speech: assertpastKingKingvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4have in a quotepresentmy Doubtless friendneed of mevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
5wish in a quotepresentKingvn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6is in a quotepastKingwith King; thousand men with me conjtree rules
7blastthe hornnom blast «act transitive»: of=patient
8need in a quotemenom need «state transitive»: of=patient

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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