Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 12
We would fain tarry awhile at Aygremore; also we have gifts, many and precious, for the Admiral.
Who acts: We · What happens: fain, have · To what, where: Aygremore, gifts
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fain | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fain | aux |
| 3 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | tarry | tarry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fain | xcomp |
| 5 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 3 fain | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Aygremore | case |
| 7 | Aygremore | Aygremore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fain | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 have | advmod |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fain | parataxis |
| 12 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 many | punct |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gifts | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 precious | cc |
| 16 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 many | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Admiral | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Admiral | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Admiral | det |
| 20 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fain | would | We | Aygremore | awhile, tarry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | we | gifts | the Admiral conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=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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