Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 3

It would be well, therefore, that we send a messenger to King Charles, telling him that if he would not have us perish he must send us help."

Who acts: last, we, Charles · What happens: be, send, tell, not have, perish, help · To what, where: messenger, Charles, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, we, Charles), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 well	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 well	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 well	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 send	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	10 send	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 send	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 send	mark
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 send	nsubj
10	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 messenger	det
12	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 send	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Charles	case
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Charles	nmod:desc
15	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 send	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 telling	punct
17	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 send	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 telling	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 perish	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 have	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 have	advmod
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 perish	advcl
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	obj
26	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 telling	advcl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 send	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 send	aux
29	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 perish	ccomp
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 send	iobj
31	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 send	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 send	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	last			well property	tree rules
2	send	present	we	a messenger	Charles King	therefore property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to charles=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	we not said here		Charles		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	not have a condition, not said to happen	would	Charles	us			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
5	perish	infinitive	we not said here				tree rules
6	send	must	Charles		us		tree rules
7	help	infinitive	Charles not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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 Richard of Normandy, sentence 3

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Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 3