Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 24
One of them, Sir Simon by name, a good man and a wise, said to him, "Receive the King's messengers honourably.
Who acts: Simon · What happens: say, receive · To what, where: Duke, messengers · 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 (Simon), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Simon | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Simon | punct |
| 5 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Simon | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 name | case |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Simon | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Simon | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wise | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wise | det |
| 15 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Simon | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Receive | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Receive | punct |
| 22 | Receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 messengers | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 King | case |
| 26 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Receive | obj |
| 27 | honourably | honourably | ADV | _ | 22 Receive | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Simon Sir by name | Duke | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | receive in a quote | infinitive | Simon Sir by name not said here | the King's messengers | honourably property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=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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