Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 15
Said Guy of Burgundy, "My lord, I pray you send me not on this errand, for if you will send me I am assured that you will never see me again."
Who acts: Guy, you · What happens: say, pray, not send, send, assure, not see · To what, where: lord, Guy, errand · 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 (Guy, you), 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 | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Guy | Guy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Burgundy | case |
| 4 | Burgundy | Burgundy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Guy | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lord | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lord | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pray | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 pray | nsubj |
| 11 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lord | acl:relcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 send | nsubj |
| 13 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pray | xcomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 send | iobj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 send | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 errand | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 errand | det |
| 18 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 send | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 send | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 send | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 send | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 send | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 send | aux |
| 24 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 send | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 send | iobj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 assured | nsubj |
| 27 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 assured | aux:pass |
| 28 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 send | advcl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 see | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 see | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 see | aux |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 see | advmod |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 assured | ccomp |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 see | obj |
| 35 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 see | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lord | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lord | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Guy of Burgundy | My lord ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pray in a quote | present | Guy of Burgundy = guy | My lord not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not send in a quote | infinitive | you | Guy of Burgundy = guy | this errand | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 4 | send a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | Guy of Burgundy = guy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | assure in a quote | present · passive | Guy of Burgundy = guy | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | not see in a quote | future | you | Guy of Burgundy = guy | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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