Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 108
But no man knew them, so strange were they to look upon, and the townsfolk asked them, "Of what country are you?" "
Who acts: man, skins, townsfolk, country · What happens: know, look, ask, be · To what, where: skins · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, skins, townsfolk, country), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 knew | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 strange | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 strange | advmod |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knew | parataxis |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | aux |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 look | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 strange | parataxis |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 look | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asked | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 townsfolk | det |
| 17 | townsfolk | townsfolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | nsubj |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asked | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 what | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 what | punct |
| 22 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 23 what | case |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 asked | parataxis |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 what | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 what | cop |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 what | nsubj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 what | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 what | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | no man | skins = skin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | past | skins = skin | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the townsfolk | skins = skin | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | country | you nsubj | tree rules |
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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