Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 68
The King said to the Duke Naymes, "Go now and see what this outcry may mean."
Who acts: King, outcry · What happens: say, go, see, mean · To what, where: Duke Naymes · 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 (King, outcry), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Naymes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Naymes | det |
| 6 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Naymes | compound |
| 7 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 10 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 Go | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 Go | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 mean | obj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 outcry | det |
| 16 | outcry | outcry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mean | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 mean | aux |
| 18 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 see | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | the Duke Naymes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to naymes=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | mean in a quote | may | this outcry | what obj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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