Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 92
Reynaud said in great wrath, "Believe it or no, as you will, but I am steadfastly purposed to have you hanged before the eyes of the King and his army."
Who acts: Reynaud, you · What happens: say, believe, purpose, have, hange · To what, where: great wrath, wrath, Reynaud, you · 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, 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 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 wrath | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wrath | amod |
| 5 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Believe | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Believe | punct |
| 8 | Believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Believe | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 no | cc |
| 11 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 Believe | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 will | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 will | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 will | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 Believe | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 purposed | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 purposed | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 purposed | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 purposed | aux:pass |
| 20 | steadfastly | steadfastly | ADV | _ | 21 purposed | advmod |
| 21 | purposed | purpose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 have | mark |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 purposed | xcomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 have | obj |
| 25 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 have | xcomp |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 eyes | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 eyes | det |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hanged | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 King | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 King | det |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 eyes | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 army | cc |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 army | nmod:poss |
| 34 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 King | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Reynaud | great wrath | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | believe in a quote | infinitive | wrath | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | purpose speech: other in a quote | present · passive | Reynaud | steadfastly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hange in a quote | participle | you not said here | before the eyes of the King and King's army | tree rules |
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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