Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 16
So the King sent messengers to Bordeaux, and the Princes received them with great honour.
Who acts: King, Princes · What happens: send, receive · To what, where: messengers, Bordeaux
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 (King, Princes), 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 | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Bordeaux | case |
| 7 | Bordeaux | Bordeaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 received | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 received | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princes | det |
| 11 | Princes | Prince | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 received | nsubj |
| 12 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 received | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 honour | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 honour | amod |
| 16 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 received | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the King | messengers | Bordeaux | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to bordeaux=Destination | |||
| 2 | receive | past | the Princes | messengers = messenger | with great honour | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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