Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 20
I swear by my baptism," cried Reynaud, "that this is not so, and I know not whither he is gone."
Who acts: I, Reynaud, this · What happens: swear, cry, not be, not know, be
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 (I, Reynaud, this), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 swear | nsubj |
| 2 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 baptism | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 baptism | nmod:poss |
| 5 | baptism | baptism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swear | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 swear | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 swear | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swear | conj |
| 9 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gone | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 gone | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | mark |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 so | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 so | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 so | advmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 gone | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 know | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 gone | parataxis |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 know | advmod |
| 22 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 gone | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gone | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 gone | cop |
| 25 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cried | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swear | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 swear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | present | I | by my baptism | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Reynaud not said here | Reynaud flat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | this | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | present | Reynaud | gone, whither property | tree 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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