Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 80
One of the yeomen said to him, "Sir Duke, come forth, for Reynaud has commanded that you be hanged forthwith."
Who acts: yeomen, Sir, Reynaud · What happens: say, come, command, hange · To what, where: Duke · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yeomen, Sir, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 said | ccomp |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 yeomen | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 yeomen | det |
| 4 | yeomen | yeoman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sir | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sir | punct |
| 10 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 come | nsubj |
| 11 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sir | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 commanded | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 commanded | mark |
| 17 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 commanded | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 commanded | aux |
| 19 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 come | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 hanged | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 hanged | nsubj |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hanged | aux:pass |
| 23 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 commanded | advcl |
| 24 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 23 hanged | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the yeomen | Duke | One ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | Sir | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | command in a quote | present · perfect | Reynaud | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hange in a quote | infinitive · passive | Duke | forthwith property | tree rules |
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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