Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 20
Then the Duke Naymes cried to the King, "This is ill done to send to their death two such valiant knights, who might do good service against the heathen.
Who acts: Duke Naymes, two such valiant knights, battle · What happens: cry, do, send, die · To what, where: King, This, two such valiant knights, death, good service · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke Naymes, two such valiant knights, battle), 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 cried | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Naymes | det |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Naymes | compound |
| 4 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 done | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 done | punct |
| 11 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 done | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux:pass |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 done | advmod |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cried | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 send | mark |
| 16 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 done | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 death | nmod:poss |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 send | obl |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 knights | nummod |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 knights | amod |
| 22 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 knights | amod |
| 23 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 send | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 do | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 do | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 knights | acl:relcl |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 service | amod |
| 29 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 do | obj |
| 30 | against | against | ADP | _ | 32 heathen | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 heathen | det |
| 32 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 do | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the Duke Naymes | the King | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | send in a quote | to-infinitive | two such valiant knights | battle's death | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knight=Theme to death=Destination | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | might | two such valiant knights | good service | against the heathen | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | die in a quote | battle | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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