Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 19
Now, for the present, put these caitiffs in prison, and see that they have enough of meat and drink that they die not of famine, as there lately died in this place one Huon of Bordeaux.
Who acts: you, caitiffs · What happens: put, see, have, not die, die · To what, where: caitiffs, prison, enough, famine · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, caitiffs), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 put | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 present | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 present | det |
| 5 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 present | punct |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 caitiffs | det |
| 9 | caitiffs | caitiff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 put | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 prison | case |
| 11 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | ccomp |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 have | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 meat | case |
| 20 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enough | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drink | cc |
| 22 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meat | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 die | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 die | nsubj |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 drink | acl |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 die | advmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 famine | case |
| 28 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 die | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 died | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 died | mark |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 died | expl |
| 32 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 33 died | advmod |
| 33 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | advcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 place | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 place | det |
| 36 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 died | obl |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 Huon | nummod |
| 38 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 place | appos |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Bordeaux | case |
| 40 | Bordeaux | Bordeaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Huon | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | this caitiffs | prison | now | for the present | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent caitiff=Theme in prison=Destination | |
| 2 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have | present | caitiffs = caitiff | enough of meat and drink | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not die | present | caitiffs = caitiff | famine | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | die | past | you not said here | there | in this place; lately property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in place=Attribute |
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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