Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 91
But the Duke Naymes stood forth and said, "Sire, I would counsel you to send the Duke to his house.
Who acts: Duke Naymes · What happens: stand, say, counsel, send · To what, where: you, Duke, house · 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 (Duke Naymes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 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 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sire | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sire | punct |
| 11 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | vocative |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 counsel | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 counsel | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 counsel | aux |
| 15 | counsel | counsel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stood | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 counsel | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 send | mark |
| 18 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 counsel | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Duke | det |
| 20 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 send | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 send | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Duke Naymes | forth property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Duke Naymes not said here | Sire vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | counsel speech: other in a quote | would | the Duke Naymes = naymes | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | send in a quote | to-infinitive | the Duke Naymes = naymes not said here | the Duke | Duke's house | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent duke=Theme to house=Destination |
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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