Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 19
In the meanwhile they that desire so to do may go to their own homes, but let all be here on Midsummer Day."
Who acts: Benes, desire, all · What happens: desire, do, go, let, be · To what, where: meanwhile, own homes
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benes, desire, all), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meanwhile | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meanwhile | det |
| 3 | meanwhile | meanwhile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 desire | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 desire | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 desire | det |
| 6 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | nsubj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 desire | acl:relcl |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 homes | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 homes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 homes | amod |
| 15 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | parataxis |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 here | nsubj |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 here | cop |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 let | parataxis |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 Day | case |
| 23 | Midsummer | Midsummer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Day | compound |
| 24 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 here | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | Benes = bene | the meanwhile | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | that desire not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | may | that desire | Benes's own homes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | all | on Midsummer Day | here property | tree rules |
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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