Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 25
When the Duke Naymes perceived this, he said, "Sire, what mean you to do?
Who acts: Duke Naymes, Naymes · What happens: perceive, say, mean, do · To what, where: this, Sire · 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, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 perceived | mark |
| 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 perceived | nsubj |
| 5 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 perceived | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 perceived | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sire | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sire | punct |
| 12 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mean | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 mean | obj |
| 15 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 mean | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 mean | xcomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | the Duke Naymes | this | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Naymes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | present | Sire | what obj; you obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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