Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 70
Then he gave him a handful of hay, for indeed there was nothing else that he could give, and went back to the Lady Clare and his brethren and said, "Endure till nightfall and you shall have meat.
Who acts: Bayard, nothing, you · What happens: give, be, go back, say, endure, have · To what, where: handful, beast, meat · 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 (Bayard, nothing, you), 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 | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 handful | det |
| 6 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hay | case |
| 8 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 handful | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 was | mark |
| 11 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 13 was | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 was | nsubj |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 nothing | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 give | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 nothing | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Clare | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Clare | det |
| 26 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Clare | compound |
| 27 | Clare | Clare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 brethren | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 30 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Clare | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 said | cc |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 went | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Endure | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Endure | punct |
| 35 | Endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 said | ccomp |
| 36 | till | till | ADP | _ | 37 nightfall | case |
| 37 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Endure | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 have | cc |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 have | nsubj |
| 40 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 have | aux |
| 41 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 Endure | conj |
| 42 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 have | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Bayard | a handful of hay | beast | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient handful=Theme | ||
| 2 | be | past | nothing | there | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | could | Bayard | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | go back | past | to the Lady Clare and Bayard's brethren result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to clare=Result | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | endure in a quote | infinitive | till nightfall | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | have in a quote | shall | you | meat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
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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