Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 147
So they departed together, and the Duke Aymon met them as they went, and gave them his blessing, and "See," said he to the three, "that you obey your brother Reynaud, for he is good at counsel."
Who acts: knights, Duke Aymon, Aymon, you · What happens: depart, meet, go, give, see, say · To what, where: knights, blessing, that, counsel · 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 (knights, Duke Aymon, Aymon, you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 departed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 departed | nsubj |
| 3 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 departed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 met | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 met | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Aymon | det |
| 8 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Aymon | compound |
| 9 | Aymon | Aymon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 met | nsubj |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 departed | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 met | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 went | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 met | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 departed | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 20 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 See | punct |
| 24 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 said | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 See | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 See | punct |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 departed | parataxis |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 three | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 three | det |
| 31 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 obey | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 three | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 three | punct |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 obey | obj |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 obey | nsubj |
| 36 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | ccomp |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 brother | nmod:poss |
| 38 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 obey | obj |
| 39 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 brother | appos |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 good | punct |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 good | case |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 good | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 good | cop |
| 44 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 obey | conj |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 counsel | case |
| 46 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 good | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | knights = knight | together property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | the Duke Aymon | knights = knight | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | knights = knight | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | past | knights = knight not said here | Aymon's blessing | knights = knight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient blessing=Theme | |||
| 5 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Aymon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | obey in a quote | present | you | that | to the three; your brother obj | tree rules | |||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | Aymon | counsel | good property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | bless | Aymon | nom blessing «act 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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