Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 60
Also your father has strictly charged me that I should suffer no one to come near to the prison, and least of all a woman, seeing that many are deceived and shamed by women."
Who acts: I, woman · What happens: charge, suffer, come, see, deceive, shame · To what, where: father, me, one, prison, many · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, woman), 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 6 charged | advmod |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 charged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 charged | aux |
| 5 | strictly | strictly | ADV | _ | 6 charged | advmod |
| 6 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 charged | iobj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 suffer | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 suffer | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 suffer | aux |
| 11 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 charged | advcl |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suffer | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 one | acl |
| 16 | near | near | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 prison | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prison | det |
| 19 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 woman | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 least | cc |
| 22 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 woman | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 woman | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 woman | det:predet |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 woman | det |
| 26 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 charged | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 seeing | punct |
| 28 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 woman | acl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 deceived | mark |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 deceived | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 deceived | aux:pass |
| 32 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 seeing | ccomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 shamed | cc |
| 34 | shamed | shame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 deceived | conj |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 women | case |
| 36 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 shamed | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 charged | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 charged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | present · perfect · passive | your father | me | of all woman; strictly property | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient i=Asset | |||
| 2 | suffer | should | I | no one | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | I not said here | no one not said here | the prison | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prison=Initial_Location | ||
| 4 | see | gerund | all woman not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | deceive | present · passive | many | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | shame | participle | by women | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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