Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 7
Then spake the Duke Naymes, "Take heed, Sire, what you do.
Who acts: you · What happens: speak, take, do · To what, where: Duke Naymes, heed · 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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Naymes | det |
| 4 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Naymes | compound |
| 5 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Take | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Take | punct |
| 8 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 spake | conj |
| 9 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Take | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sire | punct |
| 11 | Sire | Sire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 Sire | appos |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the Duke Naymes | then | Sire obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | heed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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