Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 50
Some have said that this was done by command of the King; but this is not a thing to be believed.
Who acts: command, this · What happens: say, do, not be, believe, command · To what, where: Some, this, thing, King · 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 (command, this), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 said | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 done | mark |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 done | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux:pass |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | advcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 command | case |
| 9 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 done | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 command | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 thing | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 thing | cc |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 thing | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 thing | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 thing | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 believed | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 believed | aux:pass |
| 22 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 thing | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | Some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | past · passive | command of the King | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | this | a thing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | believe | to-infinitive · passive | this not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 5 | command | the King | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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