Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 59
You are out of your wits, Sir Roland," said the Duke Naymes; "if we do so, we shall surely be all slain."
Who acts: You, wits, we · What happens: be, say, do · To what, where: wits, slain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wits, we), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 wits | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wits | cop |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 wits | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wits | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wits | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sir | punct |
| 8 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wits | appos |
| 9 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sir | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wits | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wits | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Duke | det |
| 14 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Duke | flat |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 slain | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 slain | advcl |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 do | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 slain | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 slain | aux |
| 25 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 28 slain | advmod |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 slain | cop |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 slain | det |
| 28 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 slain | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | your wits | your nmod:poss; Sir appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | your wits | the Duke nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | present | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | shall | we | all slain | surely property | tree rules |
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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