Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 15
Send a message to the Duke by some prudent man, and when you shall have received his answer, then take counsel what you shall do."
Who acts: you, Duke · What happens: send, receive, take, do, answer · To what, where: message, Duke, answer, counsel
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Duke), 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 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 message | det |
| 3 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Send | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Duke | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Duke | det |
| 6 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Send | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 man | det |
| 9 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Send | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 received | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 received | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 received | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 received | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 received | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 received | aux |
| 17 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Send | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 answer | nmod:poss |
| 19 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 received | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 take | advmod |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Send | parataxis |
| 23 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 do | obj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 do | nsubj |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 take | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | imperative | you not said here | a message | the Duke | by some prudent man | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to duke=Destination | ||
| 2 | receive | shall · perfect | you | Duke's answer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | counsel | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | shall | you | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | answer | Duke | nom answer «communication 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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