Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 13
Last of all he spied Guy of Burgundy and said to him, "You are my cousin and nearest to me in blood, you shall be the seventh with these six to take my message to Balan the Admiral.
Who acts: King · What happens: spy, say, be, take · To what, where: Guy, King, cousin, blood, message, Balan · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King), 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 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 all | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 spied | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spied | nsubj |
| 5 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Guy | Guy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 spied | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Burgundy | case |
| 8 | Burgundy | Burgundy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Guy | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spied | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cousin | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 cousin | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 cousin | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cousin | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 18 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 nearest | cc |
| 20 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 cousin | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 nearest | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 blood | case |
| 24 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nearest | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 seventh | punct |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 seventh | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 seventh | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 seventh | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 seventh | det |
| 30 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spied | parataxis |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 these | case |
| 32 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 seventh | obl |
| 33 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 seventh | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 take | mark |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 seventh | advcl |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 message | nmod:poss |
| 37 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 Balan | case |
| 39 | Balan | Balan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Admiral | det |
| 41 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spy | past | King | Guy of Burgundy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King not said here | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | King | my cousin | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be in a quote | King not said here | King | blood | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | shall | King | with these; six obl; seventh property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | King not said here | my message | Balan | the Admiral obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument message=Theme 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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