Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 88
Also you must give me four pack-horses laden with gold and silver."
Who acts: you · What happens: give, lade · To what, where: four pack horses, me
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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 4 give | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 horses | nummod |
| 7 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 horses | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 pack | punct |
| 9 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obj |
| 10 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 horses | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laden | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 silver | cc |
| 14 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gold | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | must | you | four pack horses | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | lade | participle | four pack horses not said here | with gold and silver | 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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