Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 126
Nevertheless, seeing that there is need of a wise man to take this message of the King's, I am ready to go in your stead."
Who acts: I, need · What happens: see, be, take, go, need · To what, where: message, stead, wise man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, need), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 3 seeing | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 ready | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 is | mark |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seeing | ccomp |
| 7 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 need | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 man | acl |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 message | det |
| 15 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 King | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 message | nmod |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 King | case |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeing | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 ready | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 ready | cop |
| 23 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ready | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 stead | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 stead | nmod:poss |
| 28 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 go | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 ready | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | I not said here | nevertheless property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | present | need of a wise man | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | need of a wise man not said here | this message of the King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | I | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | I not said here | your stead | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in stead=Location | ||||
| 6 | need | a wise man | nom need «state transitive»: of=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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