Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 49
Say what they will, why should I not have enough for myself, aye, and to set before a guest?
Who acts: you, I · What happens: say, not have, set · To what, where: enough · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Say | obj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 will | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 have | advmod |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 have | advmod |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | parataxis |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 myself | case |
| 13 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 enough | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 aye | punct |
| 15 | aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 10 have | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 set | mark |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | conj |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 guest | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 guest | det |
| 22 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | what obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not have | should | I | enough for myself | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient | ||||
| 3 | set | to-infinitive | you not said here | before a guest | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before guest=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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