Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 141
This done she showed them the Duke Aymon's treasure and bade them take of it as much as they needed.
Who acts: This, treasure, sons, Duke Aymon · What happens: do, show, take, need, treasure · To what, where: sons, much · 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: who acts (This, treasure, sons, Duke Aymon), 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 showed | advcl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 showed | nsubj |
| 4 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 showed | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Aymon | det |
| 7 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Aymon | compound |
| 8 | Aymon | Aymon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Aymon | case |
| 10 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bade | cc |
| 12 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 treasure | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 showed | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 take | obj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 needed | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 needed | nsubj |
| 21 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 much | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | This not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | show | past | This | sons = son | Duchess nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | take | present | the Duke Aymon's treasure and bade | much | of bade; sons = son nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent much=Theme of it=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | need | past | sons = son | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | treasure | the Duke Aymon | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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