Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 17
This damsel whom I have with me shall, if it please you, be put with your daughter that she may learn the French tongue more perfectly." "
Who acts: I, John · What happens: have, put, learn · To what, where: damsel, French tongue
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, John), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 damsel | det |
| 2 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 have | obj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 damsel | acl:relcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | obl |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | aux |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 you | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 you | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 you | nsubj |
| 12 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 13 you | discourse |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 put | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 you | punct |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 put | aux:pass |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 daughter | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 learn | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 learn | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 learn | aux |
| 23 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 put | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tongue | det |
| 25 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tongue | amod |
| 26 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 learn | obj |
| 27 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 perfectly | advmod |
| 28 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 23 learn | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | this damsel | with me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | |||
| 2 | put | shall · passive | this damsel | with your daughter; you nsubj:pass | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 3 | learn | may | John | the French tongue | perfectly property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Topic |
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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