Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 14
Tell me, therefore, what we had best do and by what way we should go."
Who acts: you, we, best · What happens: tell, have, do, go · To what, where: me, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, we, best), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 what | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 what | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 what | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 what | cc |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 what | case |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 had | advcl |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 what | nsubj |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 way | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | what ccomp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have | past | we | what way advcl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present | best | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | should | we | way not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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