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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | Oberon | Oberon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blast | det |
| 5 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 horn | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horn | det |
| 8 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blast | nmod |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 sat | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 horn | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 city | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 city | nmod:poss |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Mommure | case |
| 16 | Mommure | Mommure | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 city | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 himself | case |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 said | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 has | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Doubtless | punct |
| 25 | Doubtless | Doubtless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 friend | compound |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 friend | nmod:poss |
| 27 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 has | nsubj |
| 28 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | conj |
| 29 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 has | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 me | case |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 need | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 wish | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 wish | nsubj |
| 34 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 him | mark |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 him | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 him | cop |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wish | ccomp |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 men | cc |
| 41 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 thousand | compound |
| 42 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 men | nummod |
| 43 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 him | conj |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 me | case |
| 45 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 men | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | King | the blast of the horn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | King | King's city of Mommure | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in city=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | my Doubtless friend | need of me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wish in a quote | present | King | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | King | with King; thousand men with me conj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | blast | the horn | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | need in a quote | me | nom 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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