Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 58
But tell me who is the knight; had he more years he were like Reynaud the son of Aymon."
Who acts: you, knight · What happens: tell, be, have · To what, where: me, knight · 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 (you, knight), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 tell | cc |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | iobj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 knight | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 knight | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 knight | det |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tell | ccomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tell | ccomp |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | obj |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 years | amod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Reynaud | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Reynaud | cop |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 Reynaud | case |
| 16 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 son | det |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Reynaud | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Aymon | case |
| 20 | Aymon | Aymon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the knight | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | knight | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | knight | like Reynaud; the son of Aymon appos | tree rules |
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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