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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 14

When Richard heard him speak in this fashion he said, "Do you threaten us, Sire, in this fashion, being a prisoner and in our power?"

Who acts: Richard, Mawgis, you · What happens: hear, speak, say, threaten, be · To what, where: Mawgis, fashion, us, prisoner · 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 (Richard, Mawgis, you), 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

advmodnsubjobjxcompcasedetoblnsubjconjpunctpunctauxnsubjccompobjpunctoblpunctcasedetoblpunctcopdetparataxiscccasenmod:possconjpunctpunctrootWhenADVRichardPROPNheardVERBhimPRONspeakVERBinADPthisDETfashionNOUNhePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTDoAUXyouPRONthreatenVERBusPRON,PUNCTSirePROPN,PUNCTinADPthisDETfashionNOUN,PUNCTbeingAUXaDETprisonerNOUNandCCONJinADPourPRONpowerNOUN?PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 heardadvmod
2RichardRichardPROPNNumber=Sing3 heardnsubj
3heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 heardobj
5speakspeakVERBVerbForm=Inf3 heardxcomp
6ininADP_8 fashioncase
7thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem8 fashiondet
8fashionfashionNOUNNumber=Sing10 saidobl
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 saidnsubj
10saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 speakconj
11,,PUNCT_15 threatenpunct
12""PUNCT_15 threatenpunct
13DodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 threatenaux
14youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs15 threatennsubj
15threatenthreatenVERBVerbForm=Inf10 saidccomp
16uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs15 threatenobj
17,,PUNCT_18 Sirepunct
18SireSirePROPNNumber=Sing15 threatenobl
19,,PUNCT_22 fashionpunct
20ininADP_22 fashioncase
21thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem22 fashiondet
22fashionfashionNOUNNumber=Sing15 threatenobl
23,,PUNCT_26 prisonerpunct
24beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part26 prisonercop
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 prisonerdet
26prisonerprisonerNOUNNumber=Sing15 threatenparataxis
27andandCCONJ_30 powercc
28ininADP_30 powercase
29ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 powernmod:poss
30powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing26 prisonerconj
31??PUNCT_3 heardpunct
32""PUNCT_3 heardpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpastRichardMawgistree rules
2speak speech: otherinfinitiveMawgis not said herevn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3say speech: askpastMawgisthis fashionvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4threaten in a quotepresent · do-supportyouusthis fashionSire oblvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer
5is a in a quotegerunda prisoner and our powerour power conjtree rules

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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