Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 57
Amaury answered, "We will take up the body and carry it to Paris, and so accuse him before the King."
Who acts: Amaury, We · What happens: answer, take up, carry, accuse · To what, where: body, Paris, Prince · 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 (Amaury, We), 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 | Amaury | Amaury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 5 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 take | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 body | det |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carry | cc |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Paris | case |
| 15 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 carry | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 accuse | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 accuse | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 accuse | advmod |
| 19 | accuse | accuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 accuse | obj |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 King | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 accuse | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Amaury | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take up in a quote | future | We | the body | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | present | We not said here | body | Paris | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to paris=Destination | |||
| 4 | accuse in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | Prince | before the King | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=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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