Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 75
But the Duke answered, "I have sworn an oath to the King that I will not give you any help by food or otherwise."
Who acts: Duke · What happens: answer, swear, not give · To what, where: oath, help, you · 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 (Duke), 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 | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Duke | det |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sworn | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sworn | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sworn | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sworn | aux |
| 9 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 oath | det |
| 11 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sworn | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 oath | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 give | advmod |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sworn | advcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 help | det |
| 22 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 food | case |
| 24 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obl |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 otherwise | cc |
| 26 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 24 food | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Duke | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | swear in a quote | present · perfect | the Duke = duke | a oath | to the King | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | not give in a quote | future | the Duke = duke | any help | you | by food | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient help=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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