Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 87

And Charlemagne said, "Tell me, pilgrim, why you look so earnestly upon me?"

Who acts: Charlemagne, you · What happens: say, tell, look · To what, where: pilgrim, Charlemagne · 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 (Charlemagne, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	Charlemagne	Charlemagne	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Tell	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Tell	punct
6	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 Tell	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pilgrim	punct
9	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Tell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 look	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 look	nsubj
13	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Tell	advcl
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 earnestly	advmod
15	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	13 look	advmod
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 look	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 Tell	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Charlemagne				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		pilgrim	Charlemagne		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	look in a quote	present	you			upon Charlemagne; earnestly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon i=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 87

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 87