Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 87
You must pay thirty couple of hounds, and a hundred damsels, and a hundred falcons in their cages, and a hundred horses, and for each foot of each horse a piece of gold.
Who acts: You · What happens: pay · To what, where: thirty couple
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 pay | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 pay | aux |
| 3 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 couple | nummod |
| 5 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pay | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hounds | case |
| 7 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 couple | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 damsels | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 damsels | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hundred | det |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 damsels | nummod |
| 12 | damsels | damsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 couple | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 falcons | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 falcons | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hundred | det |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 falcons | nummod |
| 17 | falcons | falcon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pay | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cages | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cages | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 falcons | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 horses | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 horses | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hundred | det |
| 24 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 horses | nummod |
| 25 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 falcons | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 foot | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 foot | cc |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 foot | case |
| 29 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 foot | det |
| 30 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pay | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 horse | case |
| 32 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 horse | det |
| 33 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 foot | nmod |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 piece | det |
| 35 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 horse | appos |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 gold | case |
| 37 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 piece | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | must | You | thirty couple of hounds and hundred damsels | for each foot of each horse; hundred falcons in falcons's cages and hundred horses obl | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent couple=Asset for foot=Theme |
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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