Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 44
That is good counsel," said the King, and he sent the Duke Naymes with Ogier the Dane to make their demands.
Who acts: That, King, brothers · What happens: be, say, send, make, demand · To what, where: good counsel, Duke Naymes, demands · 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 (That, King, brothers), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 counsel | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 counsel | cop |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 counsel | amod |
| 4 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 counsel | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 counsel | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | nsubj |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Naymes | det |
| 15 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Naymes | compound |
| 16 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Ogier | case |
| 18 | Ogier | Ogier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Naymes | nmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Dane | det |
| 20 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ogier | appos |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sent | advcl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 demands | nmod:poss |
| 24 | demands | demand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 make | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: other | present | That | good counsel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | send in a quote | past | King | the Duke Naymes | with Ogier | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naymes=Theme | |||
| 4 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | King not said here | brothers's demands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset demand=Product | ||||
| 5 | demand in a quote | brothers = brother | nom demand «communication 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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