Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 13
You are overproud," answered Reynaud, "maybe I shall abate your high thoughts."
Who acts: You, I, your · What happens: be, answer, abate, think · To what, where: Reynaud, high thoughts · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, your), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 overproud | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 overproud | cop |
| 3 | overproud | overproud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 overproud | parataxis |
| 7 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 abate | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 abate | punct |
| 10 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 13 abate | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 abate | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 abate | aux |
| 13 | abate | abate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | conj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thoughts | amod |
| 16 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 abate | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 overproud | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 overproud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | overproud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Reynaud | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent reynaud=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | abate | shall | I | your high thoughts | maybe property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | |||
| 4 | think | your | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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