Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 60
My counsel is this: let us choose thirty knights, the most prudent that we can find.
Who acts: counsel, we · What happens: be, choose, find · To what, where: thirty knights
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 (counsel, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 2 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 let | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | cop |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 let | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 knights | nummod |
| 10 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 choose | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prudent | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prudent | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 prudent | advmod |
| 14 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knights | amod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 find | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 find | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | aux |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 prudent | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My counsel | this nsubj; us obj; let property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | infinitive | My counsel not said here | thirty knights | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | can | we | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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