Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 10

Then said Alard, "We may not hide from you that your wife, the Lady Clare, is dead.

Who acts: Alard, We, wife · What happens: say, not hide, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Reynaud's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alard, We, wife), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Alard	Alard	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hide	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hide	punct
6	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hide	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hide	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 hide	advmod
9	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 hide	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 dead	mark
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dead	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Clare	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Clare	det
17	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Clare	compound
18	Clare	Clare	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 wife	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wife	punct
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 dead	cop
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hide	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Alard	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not hide in a quote	may	We		from you	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from you=Beneficiary
3	is in a quote	present	your wife		dead property	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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 10