Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 84
But aloud he said, "I pray you, Sire, to give me some meat, for since yesterday I have neither eaten nor drunk."
Who acts: Mawgis · What happens: say, pray, give, have, eat · To what, where: you, meat, Mawgis · 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 (Mawgis), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pray | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 pray | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 pray | nsubj |
| 8 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 pray | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sire | punct |
| 11 | Sire | Sire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pray | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 give | mark |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 pray | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 meat | det |
| 17 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 yesterday | case |
| 20 | since | since | ADP | _ | 19 for | fixed |
| 21 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | conj |
| 24 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 eaten | cc:preconj |
| 25 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 have | xcomp |
| 26 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 drunk | cc |
| 27 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 eaten | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mawgis | aloud property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pray in a quote | present | Mawgis | you | Sire obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | Mawgis not said here | some meat | Mawgis | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient meat=Theme | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | Mawgis | yesterday | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | participle | Mawgis not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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