Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 29
This is good counsel," said the King, and he caused proclamation to be made, and the lists to be set up.
Who acts: This, King · What happens: be, say, cause, make, set up · To what, where: good counsel, proclamation, lists · 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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 counsel | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 counsel | cop |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 counsel | amod |
| 4 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 counsel | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 counsel | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 caused | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 caused | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 caused | nsubj |
| 13 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 14 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caused | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 made | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | aux:pass |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 proclamation | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 set | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lists | det |
| 21 | lists | list | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 set | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 set | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 set | aux:pass |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 caused | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 set | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: other | present | This | good counsel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cause in a quote | past | King | proclamation | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition proclamation=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | King not said here | proclamation not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | ||||
| 5 | set up in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | the lists | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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