Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 73
These thieves told me that they were the four sons of Amyon, and one Mawgis, their cousin.
Who acts: thieves, armies, one · What happens: tell, be, cousin · To what, where: me, four sons · 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 (thieves, armies, one), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 thieves | det |
| 2 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 sons | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sons | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sons | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sons | det |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 sons | nummod |
| 10 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Amyon | case |
| 12 | Amyon | Amyon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sons | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cousin | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cousin | cc |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 cousin | nsubj |
| 16 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 one | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cousin | punct |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | this thieves | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | armies = army | the four sons | of Amyon | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cousin | one | armies = army nmod:poss | 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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