Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 54
Sound the trumpet, and we will let him see what manner of men we are."
Who acts: you, we, King · What happens: sound, let, see · To what, where: trumpet, King, manner
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 (you, we, King), 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 | Sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trumpet | det |
| 3 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sound | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | aux |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Sound | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 12 manner | det |
| 12 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 manner | nmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 are | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 men | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sound | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | imperative | you not said here | the trumpet | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trumpet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | future | we | King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | King not said here | what manner of men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer manner=Stimulus |
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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