Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 129
But he said after a while, "My friends, you make my going the harder to me; I were better alone.
Who acts: brethren, you · What happens: say, make, go, be · 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 (brethren, you), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 while | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 while | det |
| 6 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 friends | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 friends | punct |
| 9 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friends | nmod:poss |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 while | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 make | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 harder | det |
| 17 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 going | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 harder | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 better | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 better | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 better | cop |
| 23 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 said | ccomp |
| 24 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 23 better | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | brethren | while | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | gerund | brethren | hard property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | brethren | alone, good property | tree rules |
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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