Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 107

When Richard heard it, he said to his brother, "Lift me up in your arms that I may see him."

Who acts: Richard · What happens: hear, say, lift up, see · To what, where: stride, brother, Richard, arms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Richard), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 brother	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Lift	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Lift	punct
13	Lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 Lift	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 Lift	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 arms	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 arms	nmod:poss
18	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Lift	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 see	obj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 arms	acl:relcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 Lift	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Lift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Richard	stride				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Richard		Richard's brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient clause=Topic
3	lift up in a quote	infinitive		Richard		your arms		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in arm=Destination
4	see in a quote	may	Richard	your arms			Richard obj	tree rules

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 107

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 107