Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 72
And now call thy good wife that I may pay her for the shelter and good cheer that I have had." "
Who acts: I · What happens: call, pay, have · To what, where: good wife, wife, good cheer · 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 call | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 call | advmod |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 pay | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 pay | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 pay | aux |
| 10 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 call | advcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pay | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 shelter | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shelter | det |
| 14 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pay | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cheer | cc |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cheer | amod |
| 17 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shelter | conj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 had | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 had | aux |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 cheer | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | thy good wife | now | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | pay | may | I | wife | for the shelter and good cheer | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Asset for shelter=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | present · perfect | I | good cheer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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