Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 12
After dinner, Berthelot, that was nephew to the King, said to Reynaud, "Come here, play me at chess."
What happens: be, say, come, play · To what, where: nephew, Reynaud, me, chess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 dinner | case |
| 2 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Berthelot | punct |
| 4 | Berthelot | Berthelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dinner | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nephew | punct |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 nephew | det |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 nephew | cop |
| 8 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Berthelot | appos |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 nephew | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dinner | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Reynaud | case |
| 15 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Come | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Come | punct |
| 18 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 Come | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 play | punct |
| 21 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Come | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 play | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 chess | case |
| 24 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 play | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Come | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that nephew | to the King | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Reynaud | after dinner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to reynaud=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play in a quote | infinitive | me | chess | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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