Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 7
Then said the giant again, "Take me to the King, for verily I am very near my end.
Who acts: I · What happens: say, take, be · To what, where: me, King, end · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | xcomp |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 giant | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Take | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Take | punct |
| 8 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Take | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Take | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 end | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 verily | case |
| 15 | verily | verily | ADV | _ | 21 end | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 end | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 end | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 end | advmod |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 end | nmod:poss |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Take | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | then | giant property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | me | the King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to king=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | I | near my end | my nmod:poss; verily property | 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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