Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 20

Nay," answered Ralph, "I am on my way, according to promise made to one Wymond, and to him I will go and to none other." "

Who acts: I, way · What happens: answer, be, accord, promise, make, go · To what, where: Ralph, way, one, Wymond · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, way), 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	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	4 answered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nay	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Ralph	Ralph	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 answered	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 way	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 way	cop
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 according	punct
14	according	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 way	acl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 promise	mark
16	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 according	xcomp
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 promise	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 made	obl
20	Wymond	Wymond	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 one	nmod:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 go	cc
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 go	obl
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 other	cc
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 none	case
30	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	31 other	obl
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 go	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert in a quote	past		Ralph			tree rules
2	is	present	I		my way	my nmod:poss	tree rules
3	accord	gerund	my way not said here				tree rules
4	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive	my way not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	make not said to happen	participle	my way not said here	one Wymond			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	go	future	I	Wymond			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location

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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Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 20