Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 28
Only," said they, "let us go to our own land that we may make ready."
Who acts: horses, us, own land · What happens: say, let, go, make · To what, where: us, own land · 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 (horses, us, own land), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Only | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 land | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 land | amod |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 make | nsubj |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 make | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | aux |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 land | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 make | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | horses = horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | us not said here | our own land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | make | may | our own land | we nsubj; ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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