Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 53
My father says, 'Come to Paris with five hundred knights, and make good your want of service in the parts of Lombardy, where, for lack of your help, many valiant men came by their death.
Who acts: father, many valiant men, your, men · What happens: say, come, make, want, lack, help · To what, where: Paris, good want, parts, service, help · 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 (father, many valiant men, your, men), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Come | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Come | punct |
| 6 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Paris | case |
| 8 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Come | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 knights | case |
| 10 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hundred | compound |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 knights | nummod |
| 12 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | ccomp |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 want | amod |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 want | nmod:poss |
| 18 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 service | case |
| 20 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 want | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 parts | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 parts | det |
| 23 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Lombardy | case |
| 25 | Lombardy | Lombardy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 parts | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 where | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 Lombardy | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lack | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 lack | case |
| 30 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | parataxis |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 help | case |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 help | nmod:poss |
| 33 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lack | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 came | punct |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 men | amod |
| 36 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 men | amod |
| 37 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 came | nsubj |
| 38 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lack | conj |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 death | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 death | nmod:poss |
| 41 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 came | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | My father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | Paris | with hundred knights | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to paris=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | your good want of service | the parts of Lombardy | lack of your help parataxis | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset want=Product | |||
| 4 | come | past | many valiant men | by men's death | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by death=Location | ||||
| 5 | want | your | service | nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | |||||
| 6 | lack | your help | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | help | your | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | die | men = man | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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