Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 71
Nay," answered the King, "I must needs to my work and office; Yuletide is now at hand, and he that is found wanting will be greatly blamed.
Who acts: I, Yuletide, King, my · What happens: answer, need, be, find, want, blame · To what, where: King, hand · 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 (I, Yuletide, King, my), 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 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 needs | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 needs | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 needs | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 needs | aux |
| 11 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 work | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 work | nmod:poss |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needs | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 office | cc |
| 16 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 work | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 hand | punct |
| 18 | Yuletide | Yuletide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 hand | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 hand | cop |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 hand | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 blamed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 found | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 found | nsubj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 found | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | aux:pass |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 hand | conj |
| 29 | wanting | want | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 found | xcomp |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 blamed | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 blamed | aux:pass |
| 32 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 33 blamed | advmod |
| 33 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 34 | . | . | 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 King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | need | must | I | to my work and office | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Yuletide | hand | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | find | present · passive | King | that nsubj:pass | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | want | gerund | King not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | blame | future · passive | hand | greatly property | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | work | my | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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