Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 24
If this be your will," answered the old man, whose name, it should be said, was Gerames, "I will go with you."
Who acts: I, old man · What happens: answer, say, be, go, name · To what, where: old man, counsel, Gerames · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Met With King Oberon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, old man), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 will | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 will | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 will | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 will | nmod:poss |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 will | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 will | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 name | punct |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 name | nmod:poss |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | aux:pass |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 answered | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Gerames | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Gerames | cop |
| 22 | Gerames | gerame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 go | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 go | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 go | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 go | aux |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 Gerames | parataxis |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 you | case |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 go | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 go | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the old man and the old man and the old man's name's name | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | should · passive | counsel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | Gerames | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | future | I | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | name in a quote | the old man and the old man and name's name | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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