Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 51
By St. Denis, I will hang him, and drag the false Richard at a horse's tail, and deal with Alard and Guichard in the same way."
Who acts: I · What happens: hang, drag, deal · To what, where: Denis, false Richard, tail, same way
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), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 Denis | case |
| 2 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Denis | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Denis | Denis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hang | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Denis | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 hang | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hang | aux |
| 7 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hang | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drag | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drag | cc |
| 11 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hang | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Richard | det |
| 13 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Richard | amod |
| 14 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 drag | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 tail | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tail | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 horse | case |
| 19 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drag | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 deal | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 deal | cc |
| 22 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hang | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Alard | case |
| 24 | Alard | Alard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 deal | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Guichard | cc |
| 26 | Guichard | Guichard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Alard | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 way | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 29 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 way | amod |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deal | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hang | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | future | I | Denis | by Denis St. | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme by denis=Destination | |||
| 2 | drag | infinitive | I not said here | the false Richard | a horse's tail | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent richard=Theme | |||
| 3 | deal | infinitive | I not said here | the same way | with Alard and Guichard | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with alard=Theme |
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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