Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 110
First he said to Berenger, Lord of Valois, "I will make you quit of all service to me if you will take this knave Richard and see that he is hanged."
Who acts: King, Berenger · What happens: say, make, quit, take, see, hange · To what, where: Berenger, King, knave · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Berenger), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Berenger | case |
| 5 | Berenger | Berenger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lord | punct |
| 7 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Berenger | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Valois | case |
| 9 | Valois | Valois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Lord | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | quit | quit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 make | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 service | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 service | det |
| 19 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 quit | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 quit | obl |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 take | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 take | aux |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 quit | advcl |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 knave | det |
| 27 | knave | knave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obj |
| 28 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 see | cc |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 take | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 hanged | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 hanged | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 hanged | aux:pass |
| 34 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 see | ccomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | King | Berenger and Lord of Valois | first property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to berenger=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | future | King | Berenger and Lord of Valois = berenger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | quit in a quote | infinitive | Berenger and Lord of Valois = berenger not said here | King | of all service | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | Berenger and Lord of Valois = berenger | this knave | Richard obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument knave=Theme richard=Destination | |||
| 5 | see in a quote | infinitive | Berenger and Lord of Valois = berenger not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | hange in a quote | present · passive | King | 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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