Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 55

And now I beseech you to order that I may be baptized without delay."

Who acts: I · What happens: beseech, order, baptize · To what, where: you, I

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners. 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	_	4 beseech	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 beseech	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 beseech	nsubj
4	beseech	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 beseech	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 order	mark
7	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 beseech	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 baptized	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 baptized	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 baptized	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 baptized	aux:pass
12	baptized	baptize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 order	ccomp
13	without	without	ADP	_	14 delay	case
14	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 baptized	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 beseech	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 beseech	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	beseech	present	I	you	now		tree rules
2	order	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	baptize	may · passive		I		without delay	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 55