Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 96
So the Duke sent a messenger bearing two messages, to the King one, and another to the Peers.
Who acts: Duke, messenger · What happens: send, bear · To what, where: messenger, Peers, two messages
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 (Duke, messenger), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Duke | det |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 messenger | det |
| 6 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 messenger | acl |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 messages | nummod |
| 9 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bearing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 King | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 King | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 messages | nmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 King | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 another | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 another | cc |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 sent | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Peers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Peers | det |
| 20 | Peers | peer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Duke | a messenger | the Peers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to peer=Destination | |||
| 2 | bear | gerund | a messenger not said here | two messages | to the King | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=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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