Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 111
Sir," said he, "you have done as well as could have been done by any man in keeping this castle, but now you can do no more.
Who acts: Sir, you, man · What happens: say, do, keep · To what, where: castle, more · 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 (Sir, you, man), 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 | Sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sir | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sir | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 17 done | cc |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 done | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 done | aux:pass |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 done | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | obl |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 keeping | mark |
| 22 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 done | advcl |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 castle | det |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keeping | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 do | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 do | cc |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 do | advmod |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 do | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 do | aux |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 more | det |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 do | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Sir | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | could · perfect · passive | any man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | keep | gerund | any man not said here | this castle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | can | you | no more | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality |
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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