Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 78
Reynaud answered: "Sire, I have angered you many times, and slain your men, and now I carry away your crown.
Who acts: Reynaud, your · What happens: answer, anger, slain, carry away, crown · To what, where: Sire, you, men, crown · 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 (Reynaud, your), 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 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sire | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sire | punct |
| 5 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 angered | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 angered | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 angered | aux |
| 9 | angered | anger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 Sire | acl:relcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 angered | obj |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 times | amod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 angered | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slain | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slain | cc |
| 15 | slain | slain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 answered | conj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 men | nmod:poss |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 slain | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carry | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carry | cc |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 carry | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 carry | nsubj |
| 22 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 answered | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADP | _ | 22 carry | compound:prt |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 crown | nmod:poss |
| 25 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carry | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Reynaud | Sire | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sire=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | anger in a quote | present · perfect | Reynaud | you | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | slain in a quote | infinitive | Reynaud not said here | your men | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry away in a quote | present | Reynaud | your crown | now | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | |||
| 5 | crown in a quote | your | nom crown «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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