Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 94

But before he had audience of the King, the Duke Naymes and other Barons said to him, "It will be ill done if you deliver Richard to the King.

Who acts: Roland, audience · What happens: have, say, be, do, deliver · To what, where: Roland, Richard, 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 (Roland, audience), 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	_	16 said	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	advcl
5	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 King	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 audience	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Naymes	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Naymes	det
11	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Naymes	compound
12	Naymes	Naymes	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 King	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Barons	cc
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Barons	amod
15	Barons	baron	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 King	conj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ill	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 ill	punct
21	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ill	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 ill	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 ill	cop
24	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	advcl
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 ill	conj
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 deliver	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 deliver	nsubj
28	deliver	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 done	advcl
29	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 deliver	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 King	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 King	det
32	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 deliver	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Roland				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	audience of the King and the Duke Naymes and other Barons		Roland		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	is in a quote	future	audience			ill property	tree rules
4	do in a quote	participle	audience not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	deliver a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Roland	Richard	the King		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent richard=Theme to king=Destination

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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The tree

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 94