Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 77
The King said to him, "I will give you for your horse such treasure as will content you."
Who acts: King · What happens: say, give, content · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obl |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 treasure | amod |
| 16 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 horse | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 content | mark |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 content | aux |
| 19 | content | content | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 give | advcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 content | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | the King = king | horse | for your horse and such treasure | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme for horse=Asset | |||
| 3 | content in a quote | future | the King = king not said here | horse | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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