Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 66
As for the Duke Richard, I will hang him to-morrow over the chief gate at Ardennes.'
Who acts: I · What happens: hang · To what, where: Mawgis, chief gate
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 (I), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 5 Richard | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Richard | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Richard | det |
| 4 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Richard | compound |
| 5 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hang | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Richard | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 hang | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hang | aux |
| 9 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hang | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 morrow | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hang | obl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 gate | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gate | det |
| 16 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gate | amod |
| 17 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hang | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Ardennes | case |
| 19 | Ardennes | Ardennes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hang | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hang | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 hang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | future | I | Mawgis | the chief gate | as the Duke Richard; to morrow result; at Ardennes | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to morrow=Result |
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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