Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 76
Only I will that he come to me at the Feast of St. John next ensuing, with ten thousand men well equipped for war."
Who acts: I, Charles, John, thousand men · What happens: that, come, ensue, equip · To what, where: me, Feast
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 (I, Charles, John, thousand men), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 that | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 that | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 that | aux |
| 4 | that | that | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 that | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 come | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Feast | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Feast | det |
| 11 | Feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 John | case |
| 13 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 John | nmod:desc |
| 14 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Feast | nmod |
| 15 | next | next | ADV | _ | 16 ensuing | advmod |
| 16 | ensuing | ensue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 John | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 men | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 men | case |
| 19 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 thousand | compound |
| 20 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 men | nummod |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 equipped | nsubj |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 equipped | advmod |
| 23 | equipped | equip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 that | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 war | case |
| 25 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 equipped | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 that | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 that | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | that | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | Charles | me | the Feast of John St. | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | ensue | gerund | John St. not said here | next property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | equip | past | thousand men | for war; well property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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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