Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 4
Keep from the Court, say I." "Nay, Gill," said the Charcoal-burner, "I must have my way.
Who acts: you, Gill, I · What happens: keep, say, have · To what, where: Court, I., Charcoal burner, way · 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 (you, Gill, 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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Court | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Court | det |
| 4 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | parataxis |
| 7 | I. | I. | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 say | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
| 10 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 1 Keep | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Gill | punct |
| 12 | Gill | Gill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Gill | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Gill | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 burner | det |
| 17 | Charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burner | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Charcoal | punct |
| 19 | burner | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 have | aux |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | conj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 way | nmod:poss |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | the Court | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | I. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i.=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Gill | the Charcoal burner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent burner=Topic | ||||
| 4 | have | must | I | my way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
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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