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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 92

Know," he cried, "that before you fifteen messengers have come to me making this same demand, and these fifteen have been hanged by the neck in the very same place; and you shall be the sixteenth."

Who acts: you, anger, that, me, neck · What happens: know, cry, come, make, hange, be · To what, where: same demand, fifteen, same place, sixteenth · 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 (you, anger, that, me), 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

punctpunctnsubjparataxispunctpunctnsubjmarknsubjnummodconjauxparataxismarknsubjadvcldetamodobjpunctccdetnsubj:passauxaux:passconjcasedetoblcasedetadvmodamodoblpunctccnsubjauxcopdetparataxispunctpunctrootKnowVERB,PUNCT"PUNCThePRONcriedVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTthatPRONbeforeSCONJyouPRONfifteenNUMmessengersNOUNhaveAUXcomeVERBtoSCONJmePRONmakingVERBthisDETsameADJdemandNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheseDETfifteenNUMhaveAUXbeenAUXhangedVERBbyADPtheDETneckNOUNinADPtheDETveryADVsameADJplaceNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJyouPRONshallAUXbeAUXtheDETsixteenthNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1KnowknowVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2,,PUNCT_5 criedpunct
3""PUNCT_5 criedpunct
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 criednsubj
5criedcryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin1 Knowparataxis
6,,PUNCT_5 criedpunct
7""PUNCT_5 criedpunct
8thatthatPRONPronType=Rel14 comensubj
9beforebeforeSCONJ_14 comemark
10youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs14 comensubj
11fifteenfifteenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card12 messengersnummod
12messengersmessengerNOUNNumber=Plur10 youconj
13havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 comeaux
14comecomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part5 criedparataxis
15totoSCONJ_17 makingmark
16meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs17 makingnsubj
17makingmakeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 comeadvcl
18thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem20 demanddet
19samesameADJDegree=Pos20 demandamod
20demanddemandNOUNNumber=Sing17 makingobj
21,,PUNCT_27 hangedpunct
22andandCCONJ_27 hangedcc
23thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem24 fifteendet
24fifteenfifteenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card27 hangednsubj:pass
25havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 hangedaux
26beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part27 hangedaux:pass
27hangedhangeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 criedconj
28bybyADP_30 neckcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 neckdet
30neckneckNOUNNumber=Sing27 hangedobl
31ininADP_35 placecase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 placedet
33veryveryADV_34 sameadvmod
34samesameADJDegree=Pos35 placeamod
35placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing27 hangedobl
36;;PUNCT_42 sixteenthpunct
37andandCCONJ_42 sixteenthcc
38youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs42 sixteenthnsubj
39shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin42 sixteenthaux
40bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf42 sixteenthcop
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 sixteenthdet
42sixteenthsixteenthNOUNNumber=Sing1 Knowparataxis
43..PUNCT_42 sixteenthpunct
44""PUNCT_42 sixteenthpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1knowimperativeyou not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2cry speech: express in a quotepastangervn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3comepresent · perfectthatyou nsubjvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4makegerundmethis same demandvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demand=Product
5hangepresent · perfect · passivethe neckthis fifteenthe same placetree rules
6is ashallyouthe sixteenthtree rules

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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