Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 73

But Duke Naymes said to Sir Roland, "This is foolish talk; it is not wise to give one blow and to receive a score.

Who acts: Duke, This · What happens: say, be, not be, give, receive · To what, where: Sir, foolish talk, one blow, score · 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 (Duke, This), 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	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
3	Naymes	Naymes	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Duke	flat
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Sir	case
6	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
7	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Sir	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 talk	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 talk	punct
10	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 talk	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 talk	cop
12	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 talk	amod
13	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Sir	appos
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 wise	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wise	expl
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wise	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 wise	advmod
18	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 give	mark
20	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 wise	csubj
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 blow	nummod
22	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 receive	cc
24	to	to	PART	_	25 receive	mark
25	receive	receive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 give	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 score	det
27	score	score	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 receive	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Duke		Sir		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sir=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	This	foolish talk			tree rules
3	not is in a quote	present				wise property	tree rules
4	give in a quote	to-infinitive		one blow			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme
5	receive in a quote	to-infinitive		a score			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent score=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 73

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 73