Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 26
And he said to his chamberlain, "Strip these men of their raiment and bind them to that pillar yonder, and bring me darts well pointed with iron that I may shoot at them for my sport."
Who acts: Balan, iron, my · What happens: say, bind, bring, point, shoot, sport · To what, where: men, keys, Balan · 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 His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balan, iron, my), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 chamberlain | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chamberlain | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Strip | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Strip | punct |
| 9 | Strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chamberlain | appos |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 men | det |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 raiment | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 raiment | nmod:poss |
| 14 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 men | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bind | cc |
| 16 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bind | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 pillar | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 pillar | det |
| 20 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bind | obl |
| 21 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 16 bind | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bring | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bring | cc |
| 24 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 bring | obj |
| 26 | darts | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 pointed | aux |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 pointed | advmod |
| 28 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 bring | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 iron | case |
| 30 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pointed | obl |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 shoot | nsubj |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 shoot | nsubj |
| 33 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 shoot | aux |
| 34 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 iron | acl:relcl |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 shoot | obl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 sport | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 sport | nmod:poss |
| 39 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shoot | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 bring | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Balan | this men of keys's raiment | to Balan's chamberlain | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bind in a quote | infinitive | Balan not said here | keys = key | to that pillar; yonder property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient to pillar=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | bring in a quote | infinitive | Balan | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||||
| 4 | point in a quote | present | with iron; well property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | shoot in a quote | may | iron | at keys = key; for my sport; I nsubj | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at they=Destination | ||||
| 6 | sport in a quote | my | nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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