Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 70

Then he called to him two of his chiefs and said, "Go now to King Marsilas and say to him: I come to help you against the men of France.

Who acts: Emir · What happens: call, say, go, come, help · To what, where: foot, King Marsilas, Emir · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emir), 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	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obl
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 called	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 chiefs	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 chiefs	nmod:poss
9	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 two	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct
14	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 Go	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 Marsilas	case
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Marsilas	compound
18	Marsilas	Marsilas	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Go	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 say	cc
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 Go	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 say	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 come	nsubj
25	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 help	mark
27	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	xcomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 help	obj
29	against	against	ADP	_	31 men	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 men	det
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 help	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 France	case
33	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 men	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	Emir	foot		then	two of Emir's chiefs xcomp	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Emir not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	infinitive			King Marsilas	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to marsilas=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		Emir				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	come in a quote	present	Emir					tree rules
6	help in a quote	to-infinitive	Emir not said here	foot			against the men of France	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 70