Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 36
We come from King Charles bearing a message to Balan your master."
Who acts: We · What happens: come, bear · To what, where: Charles, message
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 come | nsubj |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Charles | case |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 come | obl |
| 6 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 come | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 message | det |
| 8 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bearing | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Balan | case |
| 10 | Balan | Balan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 message | nmod |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 master | nmod:poss |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bearing | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | We | Charles King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from charles=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bear | gerund | We not said here | a message | to Balan; your master obj | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent message=Beneficiary master=Patient |
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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