Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 113
Then the King said to another of the Barons, "You hold Bavaria of me, and are bound to serve me with three thousand men.
Who acts: King, another · What happens: say, hold, bind, serve · To what, where: another, Bavaria, King · 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, another), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 another | case |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Barons | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Barons | det |
| 9 | Barons | Baron | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 another | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hold | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hold | punct |
| 12 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 hold | nsubj |
| 13 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 14 | Bavaria | Bavaria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Bavaria | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bound | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bound | cc |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bound | aux:pass |
| 20 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 serve | mark |
| 22 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bound | xcomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 serve | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 men | case |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 thousand | compound |
| 26 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 men | nummod |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 serve | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | another of the Barons | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to another=Recipient | |||
| 2 | hold in a quote | present | another of the Barons = another | Bavaria of me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bavaria=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bind in a quote | present · passive | the King not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | serve in a quote | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the King = king | with thousand men | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with man=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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