Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 91
But I judge the matter thus, that if these churls suffered at my hand the blame lies rather at the door of them that sent them on this errand."
Who acts: I, churls, blame, door · What happens: judge, suffer, lie, send · To what, where: matter, hand, door, churls, errand
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, churls, blame, door), 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 judge | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 judge | nsubj |
| 3 | judge | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 judge | obj |
| 6 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 judge | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 suffered | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 suffered | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 churls | mark |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 churls | det |
| 11 | churls | churl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 suffered | nsubj |
| 12 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 judge | parataxis |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suffered | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 blame | det |
| 17 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lies | nsubj |
| 18 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 suffered | advcl |
| 19 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 18 lies | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 door | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lies | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 door | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 sent | nsubj |
| 26 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 door | acl:relcl |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sent | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 errand | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 errand | det |
| 30 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sent | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 judge | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 judge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | present | I | the matter | thus property | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent matter=Value | |||
| 2 | suffer | past | this churls | my hand | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | the blame | the door of churls | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 4 | send | past | the door of churls | churls = churl | this errand | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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