Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 39
But when the master-mason saw Reynaud, he said, "You shall have twenty pence, for you have laboured so as I have never seen any man labour.
Who acts: master mason, Reynaud, You · What happens: see, say, have, labour, not see · To what, where: Reynaud, twenty pence, man labour · 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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mason | det |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mason | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 master | punct |
| 6 | mason | mason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 8 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 pence | nummod |
| 18 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 laboured | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 laboured | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 laboured | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 laboured | aux |
| 23 | laboured | labour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 have | conj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 seen | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 seen | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 seen | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 seen | aux |
| 28 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 seen | advmod |
| 29 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 laboured | advcl |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 labour | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 labour | compound |
| 32 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seen | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the master mason | Reynaud | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reynaud=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Reynaud | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | shall | You | twenty pence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pence=Patient | ||||
| 4 | labour in a quote | present · perfect | you | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not see in a quote | present · perfect | Reynaud | any man labour | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer labour=Stimulus |
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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