Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 110
But when Roland heard this, he said, "It must not be so, Sire; I will fight in your place."
Who acts: Roland, hold · What happens: hear, say, not be, fight · To what, where: this, Sire, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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, hold), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 3 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sire | punct |
| 11 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 Sire | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 Sire | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 Sire | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Sire | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 Sire | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sire | punct |
| 17 | Sire | Sire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 fight | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 fight | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 fight | aux |
| 21 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 place | nmod:poss |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fight | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 fight | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Roland | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Roland | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | must | hold | Sire | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fight in a quote | future | Roland | your place | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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