Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 72
Then said Roland to Guy, "I pray you do this damsel the pleasure that she would have."
Who acts: Roland, Guy, Floripas · What happens: say, pray, do, have · To what, where: Guy, damsel, pleasure · 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 (Roland, Guy, Floripas), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Guy | case |
| 5 | Guy | Guy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pray | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 pray | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 pray | nsubj |
| 9 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pray | ccomp |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 damsel | det |
| 13 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pleasure | det |
| 15 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pleasure | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Roland | Guy | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to guy=Recipient | |||
| 2 | pray in a quote | present | Roland | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | Guy | this damsel | the pleasure obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | would | Floripas | the pleasure not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=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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