Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 72
The next day the Duke Naymes said to Reynaud, "What answer do you make to the King?"
Who acts: Duke Naymes, Reynaud · What happens: say, make · To what, where: Reynaud · 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 (Duke Naymes, Reynaud), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Naymes | det |
| 5 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Naymes | compound |
| 6 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Reynaud | case |
| 9 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 make | obj |
| 13 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 What | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 make | nsubj |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 King | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the Duke Naymes | Reynaud | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to reynaud=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | present · do-support | Reynaud | to the King; What answer obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Product |
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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