Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 2

As they sat at meat, came Floripas and said to them, "Tell me now; where is Guy of Burgundy, that was to be my husband?

Who acts: Frenchmen, Floripas, Guy · What happens: sit, come, say, tell, be · To what, where: meat, Frenchmen, Guy, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frenchmen, Floripas, Guy), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 sat	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 meat	case
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
8	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Tell	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Tell	punct
15	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 Tell	iobj
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 Tell	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 Guy	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 Guy	advmod
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Guy	cop
21	Guy	Guy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Tell	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Burgundy	case
23	Burgundy	Burgundy	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Guy	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 husband	punct
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 husband	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 husband	cop
27	to	to	PART	_	30 husband	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 husband	cop
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 husband	nmod:poss
30	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Guy	acl:relcl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Frenchmen = frenchman			meat			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at meat=Location
2	come	past	Floripas						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: ask	past	Frenchmen = frenchman not said here		Frenchmen = frenchman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Frenchmen = frenchman not said here		Frenchmen = frenchman		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	is a in a quote	present		Guy				of Burgundy	tree rules
6	is a in a quote	past	Guy	my husband				my nmod:poss	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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 2