Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 52
The King said, "Speak no more of peace; it shall not be save on conditions that you know.
Who acts: King, you · What happens: say, speak, not save, know · To what, where: more, peace, conditions · 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 (King, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Speak | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Speak | punct |
| 6 | Speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 Speak | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 peace | case |
| 10 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 more | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 save | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 save | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 save | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 save | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 save | aux:pass |
| 16 | save | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 conditions | case |
| 18 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 save | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 know | obl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 conditions | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | infinitive | more of peace | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not save in a quote | shall · passive | peace | conditions | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on condition=Source | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | you | conditions | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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