Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 85
So the King gave him his armour and arms, and sixty squires of good degree to be his company.
Who acts: King · What happens: give, be · To what, where: armour, Knight, company
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 (King), 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 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 armour | nmod:poss |
| 7 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 arms | cc |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 armour | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 squires | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 squires | cc |
| 12 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 squires | nummod |
| 13 | squires | squire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 degree | case |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 degree | amod |
| 16 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 squires | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 company | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 company | cop |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 company | nmod:poss |
| 20 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the King | Knight's armour and arms | Knight | sixty squires of good degree obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient armour=Theme | ||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the King not said here | Knight's company | Knight nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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