Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 30
The master-mason said, "Sir, you are more like to a king than a labourer, and it shames me to set you to such work."
Who acts: master mason, you, mason · What happens: say, be, shame, set · To what, where: master mason, you · 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 (master mason, you, mason), 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 | 4 mason | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mason | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 master | punct |
| 4 | mason | mason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sir | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sir | punct |
| 8 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 king | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 king | cop |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 king | advmod |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Sir | appos |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 labourer | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 labourer | det |
| 19 | labourer | labourer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 king | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shames | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shames | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 shames | nsubj |
| 23 | shames | shame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 shames | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 set | mark |
| 26 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 shames | advcl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 set | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 work | case |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 work | amod |
| 30 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 set | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 shames | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 shames | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the master mason | Sir nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | like a king; than a labourer | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shame in a quote | present | mason | the master mason = mason | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | set in a quote | to-infinitive | mason not said here | you | to such work | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result |
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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