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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 82

When he heard that he was the Provost, he said to him, "Now if you would serve me, give me the horn which I left in your keeping." "

Who acts: Provost, Duke, horn · What happens: hear, be, say, serve, give, leave · To what, where: Provost, Duke, horn · 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 (Provost, Duke, horn), 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

advmodnsubjadvclmarknsubjcopdetccomppunctnsubjcaseoblpunctpunctadvmodmarknsubjauxccompobjpunctconjiobjdetobjnsubjnsubjacl:relclmarknsubjadvclpunctpunctpunctrootWhenADVhePRONheardVERBthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXtheDETProvostNOUN,PUNCThePRONsaidVERBtoADPhimPRON,PUNCT"PUNCTNowADVifSCONJyouPRONwouldAUXserveVERBmePRON,PUNCTgiveVERBmePRONtheDEThornNOUNwhichPRONIPRONleftVERBinSCONJyourPRONkeepingVERB.PUNCT"PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 heardadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 heardnsubj
3heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 saidadvcl
4thatthatSCONJ_8 Provostmark
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 Provostnsubj
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 Provostcop
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Provostdet
8ProvostprovostNOUNNumber=Sing3 heardccomp
9,,PUNCT_3 heardpunct
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 saidnsubj
11saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12totoADP_13 himcase
13himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 saidobl
14,,PUNCT_20 servepunct
15""PUNCT_20 servepunct
16NownowADVPronType=Dem20 serveadvmod
17ififSCONJ_20 servemark
18youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs20 servensubj
19wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin20 serveaux
20serveserveVERBVerbForm=Inf11 saidccomp
21meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs20 serveobj
22,,PUNCT_23 givepunct
23givegiveVERBVerbForm=Inf20 serveconj
24meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs23 giveiobj
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 horndet
26hornhornNOUNNumber=Sing23 giveobj
27whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel29 leftnsubj
28IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs29 leftnsubj
29leftleaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 hornacl:relcl
30ininSCONJ_32 keepingmark
31youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 keepingnsubj
32keepingkeepVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part29 leftadvcl
33..PUNCT_20 servepunct
34""PUNCT_20 servepunct
35""PUNCT_11 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpastProvostvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2is apastProvostthe Provosttree rules
3say speech: assertpastProvostDukevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
4serve a condition, not said to happen, in a quotewouldDukeProvostnowvn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute
5give in a quoteinfinitiveDuke not said herethe hornProvostvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horn=Theme
6leave in a quotepastthe hornI nsubjvn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7keep in a quotegerundDukevn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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