Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 78
Duke Gerard said, "It is meet that we should ourselves go and thank the King."
Who acts: Duke, answer, we · What happens: say, be, go, thank · To what, where: King · 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 (Duke, answer, 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 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | Gerard | Gerard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Duke | flat |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 meet | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 meet | punct |
| 6 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 meet | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 meet | cop |
| 8 | meet | meet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 12 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 go | nsubj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 meet | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thank | cc |
| 15 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thank | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Duke | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | answer | meet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | should | we | ourselves nsubj | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | we not said here | the King | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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