Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 18
Then he called his eldest son Lothair, and said to him, "Go to this Duke, and bid him come to me with his men-at-arms by mid-summer next, or else I will besiege his city of Aygremont."
Who acts: counsel · What happens: call, say, go, bid, come, besiege · To what, where: eldest son Lothair, counsel, city · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (counsel), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Lothair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 Lothair | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Lothair | compound |
| 7 | Lothair | lothair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Go | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Go | punct |
| 15 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Duke | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 Duke | det |
| 18 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Go | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bid | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bid | cc |
| 21 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bid | obj |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 bid | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 come | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 men | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 men | nmod:poss |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 come | obl |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 arms | punct |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 arms | case |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 at | punct |
| 32 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 men | nmod |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 mid-summer | case |
| 34 | mid-summer | mid-summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl |
| 35 | next | next | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 besiege | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 besiege | cc |
| 38 | else | else | ADV | _ | 41 besiege | advmod |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 besiege | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 besiege | aux |
| 41 | besiege | besiege | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | conj |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 city | nmod:poss |
| 43 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 besiege | obj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Aygremont | case |
| 45 | Aygremont | Aygremont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 city | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 besiege | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 besiege | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | counsel | counsel's eldest son Lothair | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lothair=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | counsel not said here | counsel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | to this Duke | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to duke=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | bid in a quote | past | counsel not said here | counsel | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | infinitive | counsel not said here | counsel | with counsel's men at arms; by mid-summer; next property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | besiege in a quote | future | counsel | counsel's city of Aygremont | else property | tree rules |
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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