Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 18
Sire," answered the stranger, "my name is Roland, and I am your nephew, being son of your sister that is married to the Duke of Milan." "
Who acts: Sire, name, I, my · What happens: answer, be, marry, name · To what, where: stranger, Roland, nephew, son, sister · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sire, name, I, my), 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 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sire | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sire | punct |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stranger | det |
| 6 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Roland | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Roland | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Roland | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Roland | cop |
| 12 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nephew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 nephew | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 nephew | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 nephew | cop |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 18 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 son | punct |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 son | cop |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nephew | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sister | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sister | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 married | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 married | aux:pass |
| 27 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 sister | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Duke | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Duke | det |
| 30 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 married | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Milan | case |
| 32 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Duke | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 nephew | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 nephew | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 nephew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Sire | the stranger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | my name | Roland | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | your nephew and son | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | gerund | I not said here | son | of your sister | tree rules | |||
| 5 | marry | present · passive | your sister | to the Duke of Milan | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to duke=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | name | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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