Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 63
And he told them how the Duke had sent for pagan men to slay his nephew. "
Who acts: arm · What happens: tell, send, slay · To what, where: prisoners, Duke, nephew · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (arm), 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 | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 sent | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Duke | det |
| 7 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sent | aux |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 11 | pagan | pagan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sent | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 slay | mark |
| 14 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sent | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 16 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slay | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | arm | prisoners = prisoner | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | send | past · perfect · passive | the Duke | for pagan men | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slay | to-infinitive | arm's nephew | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nephew=Patient |
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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