Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 77
And Amaury stood forth and told this tale: "Sir, your son sent a message to me, desiring that I should go a-hawking with him.
Who acts: Amaury, son · What happens: stand, tell, send, desire, go, hawk · To what, where: Sir, tale, message, Amaury · 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, son), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stood | cc |
| 2 | Amaury | Amaury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 tale | det |
| 8 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sir | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sir | punct |
| 11 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Sir | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 message | det |
| 17 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sent | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 desiring | punct |
| 21 | desiring | desire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 sent | advcl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 desiring | ccomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hawking | det |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 a | punct |
| 28 | hawking | hawk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 go | advcl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hawking | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Amaury | Sir | forth property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Amaury not said here | this tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | send in a quote | past | your son | a message | Amaury | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to i=Destination | |||
| 4 | desire in a quote | gerund | your son not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | should | Amaury | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hawk in a quote | gerund | Amaury not said here | with Sir | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=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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