Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 5
Then Roland, having first called Oliver, said, "We will go now and fight with the sons of Aymon, and we will take four thousand men only with us, so that we shall have no advantage over them, inasmuch as they have five thousand well horsed and well armed."
Who acts: Roland, We · What happens: have, call, say, go, fight, take · To what, where: thousand men, advantage · 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 (Roland, We), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Roland | advmod |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Roland | acl |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 called | advmod |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 having | xcomp |
| 7 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Roland | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 12 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fight | cc |
| 17 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sons | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sons | det |
| 20 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fight | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Aymon | case |
| 22 | Aymon | Aymon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sons | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 take | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 take | cc |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 take | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 take | aux |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 horsed | punct |
| 28 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 thousand | compound |
| 29 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 men | nummod |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 take | obj |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 us | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 us | case |
| 33 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 take | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 have | punct |
| 35 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 39 have | mark |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 so | fixed |
| 37 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 have | nsubj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 have | aux |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 take | conj |
| 40 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 advantage | det |
| 41 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 have | obj |
| 42 | over | over | ADP | _ | 43 them | case |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 have | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 inasmuch | punct |
| 45 | inasmuch | inasmuch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 have | conj |
| 46 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 have | mark |
| 47 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 have | nsubj |
| 48 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 horsed | aux |
| 49 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 thousand | compound |
| 50 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 have | obj |
| 51 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 52 horsed | advmod |
| 52 | horsed | horse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 armed | cc |
| 54 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 55 armed | advmod |
| 55 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 horsed | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Roland not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | participle | Roland not said here | Oliver xcomp; first property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Roland | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | future | We | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fight in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | with the sons of Aymon | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with son=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | future | we | thousand men | with us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination | |||
| 7 | have in a quote | shall | we | no advantage | over sons = son; inasmuch conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Patient | |||
| 8 | horse in a quote | present · perfect | we nsubj; thousand men obj; us obl; well property | 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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