Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 104
Rather do I blame the King for his cruelty and hardness of heart."
Who acts: Rather · What happens: blame · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rather), 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 | Rather | Rather | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 blame | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blame | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 blame | nsubj |
| 4 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 blame | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 cruelty | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cruelty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blame | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hardness | cc |
| 11 | hardness | hardness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cruelty | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hardness | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blame | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 blame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | present · do-support | Rather | the King | for King's cruelty and hardness of heart; I nsubj | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent king=Theme for cruelty=Attribute |
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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