Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 17
Nay," answered the churl, "keep your thanks till they have been earned.
What happens: answer, keep, earn · To what, where: churl, thanks, words
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 4 answered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 churl | det |
| 6 | churl | churl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | conj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 thanks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | obj |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 earned | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 earned | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 earned | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 earned | aux:pass |
| 16 | earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 keep | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the churl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent churl=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | your thanks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | |||||
| 3 | earn | present · perfect · passive | words = word | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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