Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 28
But Reynaud answered, "Be silent, brother; know that I will not compel the King to do that which is against his will.
Who acts: Reynaud · What happens: answer, be, know, not compel, do · To what, where: King · 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 (Reynaud), 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 | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 silent | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 silent | punct |
| 6 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 silent | cop |
| 7 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brother | punct |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 silent | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 compel | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 compel | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 compel | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 compel | advmod |
| 16 | compel | compel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 know | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 compel | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 compel | xcomp |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 will | nsubj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 will | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 will | cop |
| 24 | against | against | ADP | _ | 26 will | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 will | nmod:poss |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Reynaud | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | brother conj; silent property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | infinitive | Reynaud not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not compel in a quote | future | Reynaud | the King | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Reynaud not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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