Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 95

So saying he turned to the Archbishop; he crossed the dead man's hands upon his breast and said, "I commit thee to the Father's mercy.

Who acts: Marsilas, I · What happens: say, turn, cross, commit · To what, where: Archbishop, hands, thee, mercy · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Marsilas, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 turned	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Archbishop	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Archbishop	det
7	Archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 crossed	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 crossed	nsubj
10	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hands	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 man	case
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 crossed	obj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 breast	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 breast	nmod:poss
18	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crossed	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 commit	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 commit	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 commit	nsubj
24	commit	commit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
25	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 commit	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	30 mercy	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Father	det
28	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 mercy	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 Father	case
30	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 commit	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	turn	past			the Archbishop	Marsilas nsubj	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to archbishop=Trajectory
3	cross	past	Marsilas	the dead man's hands		upon Marsilas's breast	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	commit in a quote	present	I	thee	the Father's mercy		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme to mercy=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 95