Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 76
And now there comes a messenger from these same men, who is on his way to Charlemagne to seek for help.
Who acts: same men · What happens: come, be, seek · To what, where: messenger, Charlemagne, way
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 (same men), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 comes | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 comes | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 now | fixed |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 messenger | det |
| 6 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 men | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 comes | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 way | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 way | cop |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 way | nmod:poss |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 men | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Charlemagne | case |
| 18 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 way | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seek | mark |
| 20 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 way | acl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 help | case |
| 22 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seek | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | a messenger | there | now | from this same men | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location messenger=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | present | this same men | Charlemagne | man's way | man nmod:poss | tree rules | ||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | for help | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for help=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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