Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 59
I will go and seek for their bodies, and I will bring them hither, and set them in order before you." "
Who acts: I · What happens: go, seek, bring, set · To what, where: comrades, order
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 seek | cc |
| 5 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 bodies | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seek | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bring | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bring | aux |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | obj |
| 15 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 13 bring | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 set | cc |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 set | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 order | case |
| 21 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | obl |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 set | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seek | infinitive | I not said here | for comrades's bodies | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for body=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | future | I | comrades = comrade | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | set | infinitive | I not said here | comrades = comrade | order | before you | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in order=Destination |
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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