Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 13
Come now, we will go to Paris, and hold a council of the whole realm, and consider how we shall deal with him."
Who acts: you, we · What happens: come, go, hold, consider, deal · To what, where: Paris, council
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland. 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), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Paris | case |
| 8 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hold | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hold | cc |
| 11 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 council | det |
| 13 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hold | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 realm | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 realm | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 realm | amod |
| 17 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 council | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 consider | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 consider | cc |
| 20 | consider | consider | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 hold | conj |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 deal | advmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 deal | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 deal | aux |
| 24 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 consider | ccomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 deal | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | future | we | Paris | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to paris=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | a council of the whole realm | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme | |||||
| 4 | consider | infinitive | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | deal | shall | we | with Paris | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with he=Theme |
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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