Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 135
Esclairmonde said to the jailor, "Now set before the prisoner meat and drink, and take such care of him as you best can.
Who acts: Esclairmonde, Huon · What happens: say, set, take, care · To what, where: jailor, prisoner meat, such care · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esclairmonde, Huon), 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 | Esclairmonde | Esclairmonde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 jailor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 jailor | det |
| 5 | jailor | jailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
| 8 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 set | advmod |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 jailor | acl:relcl |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 meat | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 meat | det |
| 12 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meat | compound |
| 13 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drink | cc |
| 15 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meat | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 care | amod |
| 20 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 care | nmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 best | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 best | nsubj |
| 25 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 can | nmod |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Esclairmonde | the jailor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to jailor=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | set in a quote | participle | the jailor not said here | the prisoner meat and drink | now | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before meat=Destination | |||
| 3 | take in a quote | present | such care of Huon | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 4 | care in a quote | Huon | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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