Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 11
But the Duke Naymes answered, "Not so, my lord; this way has been made many years."
Who acts: Duke Naymes · What happens: answer, make · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Duke Naymes), 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 | _ | 5 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Naymes | det |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Naymes | compound |
| 4 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lord | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 so | punct |
| 8 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 so | advmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 lord | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lord | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lord | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 made | aux:pass |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 years | amod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Duke Naymes | my lord conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present · perfect · passive | this way | year | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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