Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 6
Said Ogier the Dane, "I will go with you and see how you fare, and I promise that if you lay hands on them I will lend you a rope."
Who acts: Ogier, you · What happens: say, go, see, fare, promise, lay · To what, where: hands, rope, you · 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 (Ogier, you), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Ogier | Ogier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Dane | det |
| 4 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 go | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 fare | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 fare | nsubj |
| 16 | fare | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 promise | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 promise | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 promise | nsubj |
| 20 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 lend | mark |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 lay | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 lay | nsubj |
| 24 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 lend | advcl |
| 25 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lay | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lay | obl |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 lend | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 lend | aux |
| 30 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 promise | ccomp |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 lend | obj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 rope | det |
| 33 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lend | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ogier | the Dane nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | Ogier | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | Ogier not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | fare in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present | Ogier | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | lay a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | hands | on hands = hand | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on they=Destination | |||
| 7 | lend in a quote | future | Ogier | a rope | you | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient rope=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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