Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 92
And bid him come to me; I will give him useful counsel about King Charles; and take him the keys of this city of Saragossa.
Who acts: I · What happens: bid, come, give, take · To what, where: Spain, me, useful counsel
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 bid | cc |
| 2 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bid | obj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bid | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 counsel | amod |
| 13 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 Charles | case |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 counsel | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 take | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 take | cc |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 bid | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 keys | det |
| 22 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 take | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 city | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 city | det |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keys | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Saragossa | case |
| 27 | Saragossa | Saragossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 city | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | past | Spain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | give | future | I | useful counsel | Spain | about Charles King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient counsel=Theme | ||
| 4 | take | infinitive | Spain | the keys of this city of Saragossa obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme key=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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