Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 4
But the Duke would not suffer it; "Nay," said he, "speak not one word; you cannot keep yourself in bounds; if you have your way you will bring us all to death before sunset."
Who acts: Duke, you · What happens: not suffer, say, not speak, not keep, have, bring · To what, where: office, one word, yourself, bounds, way, us · 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 (Duke, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 suffer | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Duke | det |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 suffer | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 suffer | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 suffer | advmod |
| 6 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 suffer | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Nay | punct |
| 10 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 13 said | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Nay | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Nay | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 suffer | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 speak | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 he | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 speak | punct |
| 17 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 speak | advmod |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 word | nummod |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 speak | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 keep | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 keep | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 keep | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 keep | advmod |
| 25 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 suffer | conj |
| 26 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 keep | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 bounds | case |
| 28 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 keep | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 bring | punct |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 have | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 have | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 bring | advcl |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 way | nmod:poss |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | obj |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 bring | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 bring | aux |
| 37 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 suffer | conj |
| 38 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 bring | obj |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 death | case |
| 41 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bring | obl |
| 42 | before | before | ADP | _ | 43 sunset | case |
| 43 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bring | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 suffer | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not suffer | would | the Duke | office | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Duke not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not speak speech: other in a quote | infinitive | Duke | one word | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not keep in a quote | can | you | yourself | bounds | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme in bound=Location | |||
| 5 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | your way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 6 | bring in a quote | future | you | us | death | sunset | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme to death=Destination |
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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