Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 119
The Barons said, "Sir, you must greatly desire the death of him whom you send on such an errand."
Who acts: Barons, you, Sir · What happens: say, desire, send, die · To what, where: death, errand · 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 (Barons, you, Sir), 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 Barons | det |
| 2 | Barons | Baron | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sir | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sir | punct |
| 6 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 desire | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 desire | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 desire | aux |
| 10 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 11 desire | advmod |
| 11 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 death | det |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 desire | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 death | nmod |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 send | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 send | nsubj |
| 18 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 death | acl:relcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 errand | case |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 errand | det:predet |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 errand | det |
| 22 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 send | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 desire | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Barons | Sir vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | desire in a quote | must | you | the death of Sir | greatly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot death=Theme | |||
| 3 | send in a quote | present | you | the death of Sir | such errand | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | |||
| 4 | die in a quote | Sir | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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