Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 25
Then he turned him to the King and said, "You may go in peace when you will, I will do you no hurt, for you are my sovereign lord."
Who acts: King, You · What happens: turn, say, go, do, be · To what, where: Reynaud, peace, you, sovereign lord · 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 (King, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 King | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 12 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 peace | case |
| 16 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 will | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 will | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 do | obj |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 hurt | det |
| 26 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lord | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 lord | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 lord | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 lord | cop |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 lord | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sovereign | sovereign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 lord | amod |
| 33 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 lord | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 lord | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | King | Reynaud | then | to the King | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | may | You | peace | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | King | you | no hurt obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | you | my sovereign lord | my nmod:poss | 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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