Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 6
To this Roland answered, "Fair king and uncle, send me on no such errand, for if you do, you will never see me more."
Who acts: Roland, Fair king, you · What happens: answer, send, not see · To what, where: Roland, such 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 (Roland, Fair king, 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 | To | to | SCONJ | _ | 4 answered | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Roland | det |
| 3 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 send | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
| 7 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 king | amod |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 send | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 uncle | cc |
| 10 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
| 12 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 send | iobj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 errand | case |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 errand | det |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 errand | amod |
| 17 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 send | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | aux |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 see | advmod |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 send | conj |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 see | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 send | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | this Roland | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | send in a quote | infinitive | Fair king and uncle | this Roland = roland | no such errand | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | not see in a quote | future | you | this Roland = roland | 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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