Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 10
Said King Charles, "Then you shall go with him, bearing the letters that I shall send to the Admiral."
Who acts: you, letters · What happens: go, bear, send · To what, where: letters, Admiral
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, letters), 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 | Said | Said | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 go | vocative |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 6 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 go | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bearing | punct |
| 13 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 go | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 letters | det |
| 15 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bearing | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 send | nsubj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 send | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 send | aux |
| 19 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 letters | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Admiral | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Admiral | det |
| 22 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 send | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | shall | you | then | with Charles; Said Charles King vocative | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | bear in a quote | gerund | you not said here | the letters | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | send in a quote | shall | the letters | the Admiral | I nsubj | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to admiral=Destination |
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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