Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 50
So the secretary wrote according to these words in a letter, and gave the letter to a knight that he might take it to King Charles.
Who acts: secretary · What happens: write, accord, give, take · To what, where: letter, knight, Charles
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 (secretary), 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 | _ | 4 wrote | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 secretary | det |
| 3 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrote | nsubj |
| 4 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 words | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 according | fixed |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wrote | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 letter | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 letter | det |
| 11 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 words | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrote | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 letter | det |
| 16 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 knight | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 knight | det |
| 19 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 take | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 take | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 take | aux |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 gave | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Charles | case |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 27 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | the secretary | accord this words in a letter | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | give | past | the secretary not said here | the letter | a knight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to knight=Recipient | |||
| 4 | take | might | secretary | letter | Charles King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to charles=Destination |
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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