Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 43
Maybe," said Turpin the Archbishop, "but they have a good leader this day, and a valiant man has ever valiant men to follow him."
Who acts: Turpin, Gascons, valiant man · What happens: say, have, follow · To what, where: good leader, valiant men, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turpin, Gascons, valiant man), 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 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Maybe | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Turpin | Turpin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Archbishop | det |
| 7 | Archbishop | Archbishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 leader | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 leader | amod |
| 15 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 has | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 has | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 has | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 valiant | advmod |
| 25 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 men | amod |
| 26 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 has | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 follow | mark |
| 28 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 has | advcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 follow | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 has | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Turpin | the Archbishop nsubj; maybe property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Gascons = gascon | a good leader | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Patient | |||
| 3 | have | present | a valiant man | valiant men | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | a valiant man not said here | man | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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