Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 24
But Roland answered him, "Not so, fair uncle; why should I do your bidding in this matter?
Who acts: Roland, your · What happens: answer, do, bid · To what, where: fair uncle, King, bidding, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, your), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 uncle | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 uncle | punct |
| 7 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 uncle | advmod |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 uncle | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 uncle | punct |
| 10 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 uncle | amod |
| 11 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 do | advmod |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | conj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 matter | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 matter | det |
| 21 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | past | Roland | fair uncle | King | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | should | Roland | your bidding | this matter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | bid in a quote | your | nom bidding «communication transitive»: 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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