Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 32
Then Roland, having bethought himself awhile, said to Reynaud, "Will you do me a courteous turn, and I will some day, if you should need it, do the same to you."
Who acts: Roland, Reynaud · What happens: bethink, say, do, day, need · To what, where: Roland, Reynaud, courteous turn, turn, same · 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 (Roland, Reynaud), 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 | 9 said | advmod |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bethought | punct |
| 4 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 bethought | aux |
| 5 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Roland | acl |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 bethought | obj |
| 7 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 5 bethought | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Roland | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Reynaud | case |
| 11 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 14 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | iobj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 turn | det |
| 19 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 turn | amod |
| 20 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 day | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 day | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 day | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 day | aux |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 need | punct |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 need | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 need | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 need | aux |
| 31 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 need | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 do | punct |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 need | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 same | det |
| 36 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 do | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 you | case |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 do | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 need | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bethink | gerund · perfect | Roland not said here | Roland | awhile property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Roland | Reynaud | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to reynaud=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | Reynaud | a courteous turn | Roland | tree rules | |||
| 4 | day in a quote | future | Roland | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | need a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | should | Reynaud | turn | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | infinitive | Reynaud not said here | the same | Reynaud | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
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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