Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 16
This is a jest, Sir Knight, and it is ill courtesy for a knight to jest with a common man.
Who acts: This, journey · What happens: be, jest · To what, where: jest, ill courtesy
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, journey), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 jest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 jest | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 jest | det |
| 4 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Knight | punct |
| 6 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Knight | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 jest | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 courtesy | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 courtesy | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 courtesy | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 courtesy | cop |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 courtesy | amod |
| 13 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jest | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 knight | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 knight | det |
| 16 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 courtesy | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 jest | mark |
| 18 | jest | jest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 courtesy | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 jest | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a jest and ill courtesy | Knight Sir appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | journey | ill courtesy | for a knight | tree rules | |||
| 3 | jest speech: other | to-infinitive | This not said here | with a common man | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-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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