Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 75
Then King Charles called the thirty knights, and said to them, "I pardon Duke Benes and his brothers.
Who acts: Charles · What happens: call, say, pardon · To what, where: thirty knights, chief, Duke · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Charles), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 called | advmod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 knights | det |
| 6 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 knights | nummod |
| 7 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pardon | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 pardon | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 pardon | nsubj |
| 16 | pardon | pardon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 pardon | obj |
| 18 | Benes | Benes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Duke | flat |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brothers | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Duke | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Charles King | the thirty knights | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent knight=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Charles King not said here | chief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | pardon in a quote | present | Charles King = charles | Duke and Charles's brothers | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duke=Theme |
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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