Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 29
He said to the master-mason, "Let me now serve the masons with such things as they need."
Who acts: Reynaud, sons · What happens: say, let, serve, need · To what, where: master mason, Reynaud, masons, such things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Reynaud's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud, sons), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mason | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mason | det |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mason | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 master | punct |
| 7 | mason | mason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
| 10 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Let | obj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 serve | advmod |
| 13 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Let | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 masons | det |
| 15 | masons | mason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 serve | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 things | case |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 things | amod |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 masons | nmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 need | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 need | nsubj |
| 21 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 things | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Reynaud | the master mason | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mason=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | Reynaud | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | serve in a quote | present | the masons | now | with such things | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent mason=Recipient with thing=Theme | |||
| 4 | need in a quote | present | sons = son | such things not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
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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