Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 73
Nay," cried Ralph, "that shall never be; to think that I should take pay for sheltering one that is of the Court of the King Charles!" "
Who acts: that, I · What happens: cry, not be, think, take, shelter, be · To what, where: Ralph, pay · 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 (that, I), 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 cried | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 be | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 be | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 take | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 think | ccomp |
| 19 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 sheltering | mark |
| 21 | sheltering | shelter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 take | advcl |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 Court | nummod |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 Court | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Court | cop |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Court | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Court | det |
| 27 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sheltering | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Charles | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Charles | det |
| 30 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 31 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Court | nmod |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 31 Charles | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Charles | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Ralph | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not be | shall | that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | take | should | I | pay | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shelter | gerund | I not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | present | that | of the one Court; of the Charles King | tree rules |
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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