Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 61
When the knights had finished their greetings, Floripas said to them, "My lords, will you promise me on your honour that you will help me to attain that which I desire?"
Who acts: Floripas, knights, your · What happens: finish, say, promise, help, attain, desire · To what, where: knights, greetings, Floripas, honour · 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 (Floripas, knights, your), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 finished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knights | det |
| 3 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 promise | advcl |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 greetings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | greetings | greeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 finished | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 greetings | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lords | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 lords | punct |
| 15 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lords | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 greetings | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 promise | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 promise | nsubj |
| 20 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 promise | iobj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 honour | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 honour | nmod:poss |
| 24 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 promise | obl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 help | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 help | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 help | aux |
| 28 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 promise | advcl |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 help | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 attain | mark |
| 31 | attain | attain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 help | xcomp |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 desire | mark |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 desire | obj |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 desire | nsubj |
| 35 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 attain | advcl |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 promise | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect · passive | the knights | knights's greetings and My lords obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Floripas | knights's greetings and My lords not said here | knights = knight | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent greeting=Topic to they=Recipient | |||
| 3 | promise speech: promise in a quote | future | knights = knight | Floripas | your honour | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 4 | help in a quote | future | knights = knight | Floripas | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | attain in a quote | to-infinitive | Floripas not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | desire in a quote | present | Floripas | which obj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | ||||
| 7 | greet | knights = knight | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | honour in a quote | your | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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