Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 58
But Oliver said, "My lord King, I ask neither towns nor castles, but only this--that you suffer me to do battle with this pagan."
Who acts: Oliver, you · What happens: say, ask, suffer, do, battle · To what, where: this, Oliver · 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 (Oliver, you), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 King | punct |
| 6 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lord | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 King | nmod:desc |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ask | nsubj |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 King | parataxis |
| 12 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 towns | cc:preconj |
| 13 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 this | nsubj |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 castles | cc |
| 15 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 towns | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 this | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 this | cc |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 this | advmod |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 ask | obl |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 suffer | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 suffer | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 suffer | nsubj |
| 23 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ask | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 suffer | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 suffer | xcomp |
| 27 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 do | xcomp |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 pagan | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 pagan | det |
| 30 | pagan | pagan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 battle | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 King | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 King | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Oliver | King My lord ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | Oliver | this towns nor castles | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | suffer in a quote | present | you | Oliver | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | battle in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | with this pagan | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with pagan=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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