Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 73
But the King said to Reyner, "What I have given I may not withdraw."
Who acts: King · What happens: say, give, not withdraw · To what, where: Reyner · 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 (King), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Reyner | case |
| 6 | Reyner | Reyner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
| 9 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 given | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 given | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 withdraw | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 withdraw | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 withdraw | advmod |
| 16 | withdraw | withdraw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 given | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | Reyner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to reyner=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | present · perfect · passive | What nsubj:pass; I nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not withdraw in a quote | may | the King = king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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