Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 29
And now depart from my sight, for your high words please me not."
Who acts: my, your · What happens: not depart, sight, word · To what, where: me, sight
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 (my, your), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 depart | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 depart | advmod |
| 3 | depart | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sight | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 depart | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 words | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 words | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 words | nmod:poss |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 words | amod |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 depart | obl |
| 12 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 13 me | discourse |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 depart | obl |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 depart | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 depart | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 depart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not depart | present | me | my sight | now | for your high words | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | sight | my | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | word | your | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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