Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 2
This is not of my counsel," said Gillian his wife; "this journey will not be to your profit.
Who acts: This, Gillian, journey · What happens: not be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Gillian, 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 | 6 counsel | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 counsel | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 counsel | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 counsel | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 6 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 counsel | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 counsel | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Gillian | Gillian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 profit | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 profit | punct |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 journey | det |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 profit | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 profit | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 profit | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 profit | cop |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 profit | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 profit | nmod:poss |
| 22 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be speech: other | present | This | of my counsel; my nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Gillian | Gillian's wife nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is | future | this journey | to your profit; your nmod:poss | 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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