Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 84
Oliver said, "If these things are true, it is time that you should suffer due punishment for your misdeeds.
Who acts: Oliver, things, thing, time · What happens: say, be, suffer · To what, where: time, due punishment · 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, things, thing, time), 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 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 true | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 true | punct |
| 5 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 true | mark |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 things | det |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 true | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 true | cop |
| 9 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 time | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 time | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 time | cop |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 true | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 suffer | nsubj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 suffer | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 suffer | aux |
| 17 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 time | acl:relcl |
| 18 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 punishment | amod |
| 19 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 suffer | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 misdeeds | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 misdeeds | nmod:poss |
| 22 | misdeeds | misdeed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 suffer | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Oliver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | this things | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | thing | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | suffer in a quote | should | time | due punishment | for your misdeeds; you nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer punishment=Stimulus for misdeed=Attribute |
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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