Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 86
And when the Duke came he said to him, "How are you so bold that you feed my mortal enemies.
Who acts: Duke, Aymon · What happens: come, say, be, feed · To what, where: Aymon, mortal enemies · 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, Aymon), 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 | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Duke | det |
| 4 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bold | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 bold | punct |
| 12 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 bold | advmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 bold | cop |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 bold | nsubj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 bold | advmod |
| 16 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 feed | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 feed | nsubj |
| 19 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 bold | advcl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 enemies | amod |
| 22 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 feed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Duke | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Duke | Aymon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Aymon | bold property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feed in a quote | present | Aymon | my mortal enemies | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Recipient |
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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