Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 10
The Duke answered that he would gladly do this, and so proceeded: "The great and noble King of France bids you render to him the crown of thorns with which our Lord Christ was crowned and the other Holy Things.
Who acts: Duke, great King, you · What happens: answer, do, proceed, bid, render, crown · To what, where: this, crown, Duke, Lord, thorns · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke, great 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Duke | det |
| 2 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 8 do | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proceeded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 proceeded | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 proceeded | advmod |
| 13 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 bids | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 bids | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 King | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 noble | cc |
| 19 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 great | conj |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 bids | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 France | case |
| 22 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 King | nmod |
| 23 | bids | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 proceeded | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 render | nsubj |
| 25 | render | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bids | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 render | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 crown | det |
| 29 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 render | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 thorns | case |
| 31 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 crown | nmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 crowned | obl |
| 34 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 35 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 crowned | nsubj |
| 36 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Lord | flat |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 crowned | aux:pass |
| 38 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 thorns | acl:relcl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 Things | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Things | det |
| 41 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Things | amod |
| 42 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 43 Things | compound |
| 43 | Things | Thing | PROPN | Number=Plur | 38 crowned | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Duke | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | would | Duke | this | gladly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | proceed | past | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | bid in a quote | present | the great King of France | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | render in a quote | present | you | the crown of thorns | Duke | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent crown=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 6 | crown in a quote | past · passive | our Lord | with thorns; the other Holy Things conj | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme | ||||
| 7 | crown in a quote | thorns | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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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