Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 46
Said the churl to the King, "Sir, the foresters in this place threaten me much about the deer.
Who acts: churl, foresters · What happens: say, threaten · To what, where: King, Sir · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (churl, foresters), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 churl | det |
| 3 | churl | churl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sir | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sir | punct |
| 9 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 threaten | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 foresters | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 foresters | det |
| 12 | foresters | forester | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 threaten | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 foresters | nmod |
| 16 | threaten | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Said | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 threaten | obj |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 16 threaten | advmod |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 deer | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 deer | det |
| 21 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 threaten | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the churl | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | threaten in a quote | infinitive | the foresters in this place | Sir | about the deer; me obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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