Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 47

But Sortibrant, who knew that women are changeable and inconstant, said to him, "It is not a wise thing to put such trust in a woman.

Who acts: Sortibrant, women, justice · What happens: know, be, say, not be, put · To what, where: Admiral, wise thing, such trust · 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 (Sortibrant, women, justice), 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	_	13 said	cc
2	Sortibrant	Sortibrant	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Sortibrant	acl:relcl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 changeable	mark
7	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 changeable	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 changeable	cop
9	changeable	changeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 knew	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 inconstant	cc
11	inconstant	inconstant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 changeable	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sortibrant	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thing	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 thing	punct
18	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thing	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 thing	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 thing	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 thing	det
22	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thing	amod
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 put	mark
25	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 thing	acl
26	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 trust	amod
27	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 woman	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 woman	det
30	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Sortibrant				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	women			changeable property	tree rules
3	be		women not said here				tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Sortibrant		Admiral		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	not is a in a quote	present	justice	a wise thing			tree rules
6	put in a quote	to-infinitive	Sortibrant not said here	such trust		in a woman	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trust=Theme in woman=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 47