Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 9
He sent therefore a messenger who should say to Reynaud, "The King bids you yield up your castle and also your brother Richard.
Who acts: King, messenger, Reynaud · What happens: send, say, bid, yield up · To what, where: messenger, Reynaud, castle · 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 (King, messenger, Reynaud), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 sent | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 messenger | det |
| 5 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 say | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | aux |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 messenger | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Reynaud | case |
| 10 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 say | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bids | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 bids | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bids | nsubj |
| 15 | bids | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 yield | nsubj |
| 17 | yield | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bids | ccomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 yield | compound:prt |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 castle | nmod:poss |
| 20 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 yield | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 brother | cc |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 brother | advmod |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 castle | conj |
| 25 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 brother | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | King | a messenger | therefore property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | should | a messenger | Reynaud | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to reynaud=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | bid in a quote | present | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | yield up in a quote | present | Reynaud | your castle and your brother | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent castle=Theme |
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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