Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 16
And go you into the city, and buy bread and meat and other things needful, and I, with my cup, will give them drink."
Who acts: you, cup · What happens: go, buy, give, drink · To what, where: you, city, bread
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cup), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 go | cc |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 go | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 buy | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 buy | cc |
| 9 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 10 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buy | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 meat | cc |
| 12 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bread | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 things | cc |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 things | amod |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bread | conj |
| 16 | needful | needful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 buy | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 I | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 I | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 go | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cup | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 cup | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cup | nmod:poss |
| 23 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 go | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 give | aux |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 cup | acl:relcl |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | iobj |
| 28 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 give | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | you | the city | I conj; my cup parataxis | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | ||
| 2 | buy | infinitive | you not said here | bread and meat and other things | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | future | my cup not said here | bread | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | my cup not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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