Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 61
Then you should have warned us," said Roland, and as he spake he put his hand to his side and missed his good sword Durendal.
Who acts: Roland · What happens: warn, say, put, miss · To what, where: you, us, hand, good sword · 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), 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 | 5 warned | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 warned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 warned | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 warned | aux |
| 5 | warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | advcl |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 warned | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 warned | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 warned | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 spake | case |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spake | nsubj |
| 15 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | nsubj |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 side | nmod:poss |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 missed | cc |
| 24 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sword | nmod:poss |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sword | amod |
| 27 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 missed | obj |
| 28 | Durendal | Durendal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 sword | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | should · perfect · passive | you | us | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Roland | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put in a quote | past | Roland | Roland's hand | as spake Roland; to Roland's side | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | |||
| 4 | miss in a quote | past | Roland not said here | Roland's good sword | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus |
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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