Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 28
I counsel you, therefore, to make a proclamation that there shall be a race of all the best horses in your realm, and that you will give to the horse that shall prevail your crown of gold, and five hundred marks of fine silver, and a hundred rolls of silk." "
Who acts: I, you, horse, best horses, your · What happens: counsel, make, give, prevail, race, crown · To what, where: you, proclamation, hundred marks, crown, gold, fine silver
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, horse, best horses), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 counsel | nsubj |
| 2 | counsel | counsel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 counsel | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 counsel | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 counsel | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 proclamation | det |
| 10 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 be | nsubj |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 be | expl |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 be | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 proclamation | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 race | det |
| 16 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 be | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 horses | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 horses | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horses | det |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 horses | amod |
| 21 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 race | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 realm | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 realm | nmod:poss |
| 24 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 horses | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 give | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 give | cc |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 give | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 give | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 give | aux |
| 30 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 make | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 horse | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 horse | det |
| 33 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 give | obl |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 prevail | nsubj |
| 35 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 prevail | aux |
| 36 | prevail | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 horse | acl:relcl |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 crown | nmod:poss |
| 38 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 prevail | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 gold | case |
| 40 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 crown | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 marks | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 marks | cc |
| 43 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 hundred | compound |
| 44 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 marks | nummod |
| 45 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 give | iobj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 silver | case |
| 47 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 silver | amod |
| 48 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 marks | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 rolls | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 rolls | cc |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 hundred | det |
| 52 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 53 rolls | nummod |
| 53 | rolls | roll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 give | conj |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 silk | case |
| 55 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 rolls | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 counsel | punct |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 counsel | punct |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 counsel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | counsel speech: other | present | I | you | therefore property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | a proclamation | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset proclamation=Product | |||||
| 3 | give | future | you | hundred marks of fine silver | to the horse; hundred rolls of silk conj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mark=Theme to horse=Recipient | |||
| 4 | prevail | shall | the horse | your crown of gold | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | race | all best horses in your realm | nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | crown | your | gold | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | |||||
| 7 | mark | fine silver | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | roll | silk | nom roll «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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