Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 104
But Yonnet, who was his younger son, said, "Father, do you chose that my mother and my brother should die, and Bayard live?"
Who acts: Yonnet, Father, you, mother · What happens: be, say, do, choose, die, live · To what, where: younger son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yonnet, Father, you, mother), 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 | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 2 | Yonnet | Yonnet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 son | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 son | cop |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 son | amod |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Yonnet | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yonnet | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Father | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Father | punct |
| 13 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 live | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Father | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 chose | nsubj |
| 17 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | ccomp |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 die | mark |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 die | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 brother | cc |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mother | conj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 die | aux |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 chose | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 live | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 live | cc |
| 28 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 live | nsubj |
| 29 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Yonnet | Yonnet's younger son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Yonnet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | Father not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | choose in a quote | past | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | die in a quote | should | my mother and my brother | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | live in a quote | present | Father | Bayard nsubj | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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