Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 39
"Take courage, my lord King," said the Duke Naymes, "some one will be found to do you this service."
Who acts: Duke Naymes, one · What happens: take, say, find, do · To what, where: courage, one, service, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke Naymes, one), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 King | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lord | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 King | nmod:desc |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Naymes | det |
| 12 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Naymes | compound |
| 13 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 found | aux:pass |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 found | xcomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 do | iobj |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 service | det |
| 25 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | infinitive | courage | King my lord obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Duke Naymes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | future · passive | some one | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | some one not said here | this service | you | 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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