Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 9
Let us inform the King of our condition, that he may come to our help."
Who acts: you, us, King, our · What happens: let, inform, come, condition, help · To what, where: us, King, help
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 (you, us, King, our), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 inform | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 condition | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 condition | nmod:poss |
| 8 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 King | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 inform | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 help | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 help | nmod:poss |
| 16 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inform speech: other | infinitive | us not said here | the King of our condition | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | may | King | our help | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | condition | our | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | help | our | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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