Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 73
Take him also, for a token, this gauntlet and this staff of gold."
Who acts: you · What happens: take · To what, where: Emir
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 (you), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 token | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 token | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 token | det |
| 7 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gauntlet | punct |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 gauntlet | det |
| 10 | gauntlet | gauntlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 token | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 staff | cc |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 staff | det |
| 13 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 token | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 staff | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | Emir | for a token and this gauntlet and this staff of gold | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for token=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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