Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 113
But soon she took courage, and greeted the men, saying, "Who are you, Christian men or pagans?
Who acts: townsfolk, you · What happens: take, greet, say, be · To what, where: courage, men, Christian men · 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 (townsfolk, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 took | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 greeted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 greeted | cc |
| 8 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 greeted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 greeted | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Who | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Who | punct |
| 15 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 saying | obj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Who | cop |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 Who | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 men | punct |
| 19 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 men | amod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saying | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 pagans | cc |
| 22 | pagans | pagan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 men | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | townsfolk | courage | soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | |||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | past | townsfolk not said here | the men | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | gerund | townsfolk not said here | Christian men or pagans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | you | 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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