Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 33
Sortibrant said, "I will give you good counsel concerning him.
Who acts: Sortibrant, good counsel · What happens: say, give, concern · To what, where: good counsel, you, Sortibrant · 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 (Sortibrant, good counsel), 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 | Sortibrant | Sortibrant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 counsel | amod |
| 10 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 counsel | acl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 concerning | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sortibrant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | Sortibrant | good counsel | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient counsel=Theme | |||
| 3 | concern in a quote | gerund | good counsel not said here | Sortibrant | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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