Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 116
Have a care for him, I entreat you, for I shall never see him more." "
Who acts: you, I · What happens: have, entreat, not see · To what, where: care, you, child
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 care | det |
| 3 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Have | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Have | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 entreat | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 entreat | nsubj |
| 8 | entreat | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Have | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 entreat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Have | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 see | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | imperative | you not said here | a care | for child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient | |||
| 2 | entreat | present | I | you | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not see | shall | I | child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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