Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 84
The Emir our master bade us say, 'I will deliver King Marsilas; as for this Charles, I will attack him in his own land of France.
Who acts: Emir, I · What happens: say, deliver, attack · To what, where: King, own land · 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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emir | det |
| 2 | Emir | Emir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bade | nmod:poss |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bade | compound |
| 5 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Emir | appos |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bade | nmod |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 deliver | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 deliver | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 deliver | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 deliver | aux |
| 12 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | ccomp |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 deliver | obj |
| 14 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | flat |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 attack | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 Charles | case |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Charles | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 Charles | det |
| 19 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 attack | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Charles | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 attack | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 attack | aux |
| 23 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 attack | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 land | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 land | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 land | amod |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 attack | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 France | case |
| 30 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 land | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Emir | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | deliver | future | I | King | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | ||||
| 3 | attack | future | I | King | King's own land of France | as this Charles | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as charles=Attribute |
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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