Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 75
The next day Reynaud said to his brothers, "It is manifest that the King will not give us peace.
Who acts: Reynaud, pride, King · What happens: say, be, not give · To what, where: brothers, peace, us · 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 (Reynaud, pride, King), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 brothers | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 manifest | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 manifest | punct |
| 11 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 manifest | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 manifest | cop |
| 13 | manifest | manifest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 give | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 give | advmod |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 manifest | advcl |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Reynaud | King's brothers | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | pride | manifest property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not give in a quote | future | the King | peace | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient peace=Theme |
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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