Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 67
Yet when the Lady Clare besought him, and his children also, he yielded to them, saying that the horse should die.
Who acts: Lady Clare, children, horse · What happens: beseech, yield, say, die · To what, where: Bayard, ladders · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady Clare, children, horse), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 6 besought | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 besought | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Clare | det |
| 4 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Clare | compound |
| 5 | Clare | Clare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 besought | nsubj |
| 6 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 besought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 yielded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 yielded | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 children | nmod:poss |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 yielded | nsubj |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 yielded | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 also | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 yielded | nsubj |
| 15 | yielded | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 besought | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 yielded | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 yielded | advcl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 die | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horse | det |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 die | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 die | aux |
| 24 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 saying | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 besought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beseech | past | the Lady Clare | Bayard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | yield | past | Bayard's children | ladders = ladder | Bayard nsubj | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Bayard's children not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | die | should | the horse | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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