Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 91
He said to the Admiral, "Let me have some of your men to wait on me, and I will speedily deliver these Christians into your hand."
Who acts: knight · What happens: say, let, have, wait, deliver · To what, where: Admiral, knight, some, Christians, hand · 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 (knight), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Admiral | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Admiral | det |
| 5 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 8 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Let | obj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Let | xcomp |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 men | nmod:poss |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 some | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 wait | mark |
| 16 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 men | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wait | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 deliver | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 deliver | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 deliver | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 deliver | aux |
| 23 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 24 deliver | advmod |
| 24 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Let | conj |
| 25 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 Christians | det |
| 26 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 deliver | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 deliver | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | knight | the Admiral | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to admiral=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | knight | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | infinitive | knight not said here | some of your men | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||||
| 4 | wait in a quote | to-infinitive | knight not said here | on knight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on i=Location | ||||
| 5 | deliver in a quote | future | knight | this Christians | your hand | speedily property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christian=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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