Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 9
Then said the Admiral, "That is well counselled; go and see, and when you return make my daughter to return with you."
Who acts: you, daughter · What happens: say, counsell, go, see, return, make · To what, where: Admiral, That, daughter · 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 the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, daughter), 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Admiral | det |
| 4 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 counselled | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 counselled | punct |
| 7 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 counselled | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 counselled | aux:pass |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 counselled | advmod |
| 10 | counselled | counsell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 make | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 return | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 return | nsubj |
| 19 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 make | advcl |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | conj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 return | mark |
| 24 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 make | xcomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 return | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Admiral | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | counsell in a quote | present · passive | That | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | return in a quote | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | make in a quote | infinitive | my daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | return in a quote | to-infinitive | my daughter not said here | with you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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