Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 62

I saw," she said, "a thousand wild boars come out of the forest of Ardennes.

Who acts: I, wife, thousand wild boars · What happens: see, say, come out · To what, where: forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife, thousand wild boars), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boars	det
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 boars	nummod
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boars	amod
12	boars	boar	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 come	nsubj
13	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 forest	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Ardennes	case
19	Ardennes	Ardennes	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 forest	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	past	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	wife		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	come out	present	a thousand wild boars	the forest of Ardennes	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient forest=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 62