Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 22

Say what you will; I count you to be of no more worth than a dead dog."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: say, count, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Say	obj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 will	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 count	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 count	nsubj
7	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	parataxis
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 count	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	14 worth	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 worth	cop
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 worth	mark
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 worth	det
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 worth	advmod
14	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 count	advcl
15	than	than	ADP	_	18 dog	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dog	det
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dog	amod
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 worth	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Say	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		what obj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	count	present	I	you		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	I not said here		than a dead dog; worth 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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 22