Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 86
The next day Reynaud said to his brothers, "So far we have done well, and have been delivered beyond all hope.
Who acts: Reynaud, we · What happens: say, do, deliver · To what, where: brothers · 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 (Reynaud, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 brothers | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brothers | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 done | punct |
| 11 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 done | advmod |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 done | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 done | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 delivered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 delivered | cc |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 delivered | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 delivered | aux:pass |
| 21 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 done | conj |
| 22 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 24 hope | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 hope | det |
| 24 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 delivered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Reynaud | Reynaud's brothers | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · perfect | we | far, well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | deliver in a quote | present · perfect · passive | we not said here | beyond all hope | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP» |
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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