Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 21

The King said to his Barons: "Now cause that they make a gallows, so that I may hang this Mawgis or ever we sup." "

Who acts: King, Barons, we · What happens: say, cause, make, hang, sup · To what, where: Barons, gallows, Mawgis · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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, Barons, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Barons	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Barons	nmod:poss
6	Barons	baron	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 cause	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cause	punct
9	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 cause	advmod
10	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 make	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
13	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cause	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 gallows	det
15	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hang	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 hang	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 hang	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hang	aux
21	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cause	parataxis
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 Mawgis	det
23	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 hang	obj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 sup	cc
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 sup	advmod
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sup	nsubj
27	sup	sup	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 Mawgis	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 hang	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 hang	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the King		King's Barons		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to baron=Recipient clause=Topic
2	cause in a quote	present				now	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
3	make in a quote	present	Barons = baron	a gallows			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gallows=Product
4	hang in a quote	may	the King = king	this Mawgis			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mawgis=Patient
5	sup in a quote	present	we			ever	vn dine-39.5 «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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The tree

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 21