Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 54
But Roland was angry, and said, "What devil prompts you to speak of love; this is not the time for such talk."
Who acts: Roland, devil, this · What happens: be, say, prompt, speak, not be · To what, where: you, time · 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 (Roland, devil, 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 angry | cc |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | cop |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prompts | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 prompts | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 prompts | obj |
| 11 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prompts | nsubj |
| 12 | prompts | prompt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 prompts | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 speak | mark |
| 15 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 prompts | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 love | case |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 speak | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 time | punct |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 time | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 time | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 time | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angry | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 talk | case |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 talk | amod |
| 26 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 time | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 angry | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Roland | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | prompt in a quote | present | devil | you | What obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | devil not said here | of love | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not is a in a quote | present | this | the time | for such talk | 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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