Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 110
So he called the Barons, saying, "Come back to me, for I must perforce yield to your desire."
Who acts: Naymes, your · What happens: call, say, come back, perforce, desire · To what, where: Barons, Naymes, yield · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Naymes, your), 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 | _ | 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Barons | det |
| 5 | Barons | Baron | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 called | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 10 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saying | ccomp |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 Come | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Come | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 perforce | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 perforce | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 perforce | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 perforce | aux |
| 18 | perforce | perforce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Come | conj |
| 19 | yield | yield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 perforce | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 desire | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 desire | nmod:poss |
| 22 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 perforce | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Naymes | the Barons | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baron=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Naymes not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come back in a quote | infinitive | Naymes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | perforce in a quote | must | Naymes | yield | to your desire | tree rules | |||
| 5 | desire in a quote | your | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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