Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 77
The porter said to him, "Whither do you go with this company, and what is your errand?"
Who acts: porter, Naymes · What happens: say, go, be · To what, where: Naymes, 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 (porter, Naymes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 porter | det |
| 2 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 8 | Whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 go | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 company | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 company | det |
| 14 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 errand | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 errand | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 errand | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 errand | cop |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 errand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 errand | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 errand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the porter | Naymes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · do-support | Naymes | with this company; whither property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with company=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | your errand | what nsubj; your nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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