Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 20
Then went Amaury to Prince Charlot and said: "I had thought to win for you the Duchy of Bordeaux.
Who acts: I · What happens: go, say, think, win · To what, where: Charlot, Duchy · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Amaury | Amaury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | flat |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Charlot | case |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Charlot | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Charlot | Charlot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | aux |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 win | mark |
| 15 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 win | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Duchy | det |
| 19 | Duchy | Duchy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 win | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Bordeaux | case |
| 21 | Bordeaux | Bordeaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Duchy | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Charlot Prince | then | Amaury flat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to charlot=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | past · perfect | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | win in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | the Duchy of Bordeaux | for you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent duchy=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
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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