Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 99
To the Peers he said, "Show now to the King that if he suffer me thus to die, he shall do himself such dishonour as shall never be done away."
Who acts: Duke · What happens: say, show, suffer, die, do, not do away · To what, where: Peers, King, Duke · 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 (Duke), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 Peers | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Peers | det |
| 3 | Peers | peer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Show | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Show | punct |
| 8 | Show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 Show | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Show | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 suffer | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 suffer | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 suffer | nsubj |
| 16 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Show | advcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 suffer | obj |
| 18 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 suffer | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 die | mark |
| 20 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 suffer | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Show | parataxis |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 do | obj |
| 26 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dishonour | amod |
| 27 | dishonour | dishonour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 done | mark |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 done | aux |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 32 done | advmod |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 done | aux:pass |
| 32 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 do | advcl |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 done | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Duke | the Peers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to peer=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | show in a quote | infinitive | the King | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | suffer a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | Duke | Duke | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | Duke not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | shall | Duke | Duke | such dishonour obj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | not do away in a quote | shall · passive | Duke not said here | away property | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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