Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 70
But Guy answered, "God forbid that I should take a wife except she were given me by King Charles himself."
Who acts: Guy, God, Charles · What happens: answer, forbid, take, give · To what, where: wife, Guy · 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 (Guy, God, Charles), 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 | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | Guy | Guy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 forbid | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 forbid | punct |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 forbid | nsubj |
| 7 | forbid | forbid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 forbid | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wife | det |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | except | except | ADP | _ | 17 given | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 given | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux:pass |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 take | advcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 given | iobj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Charles | case |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obl |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 Charles | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 forbid | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 forbid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Guy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | forbid in a quote | infinitive | God | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | should | Guy | a wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | past · passive | Charles King Guy | wife | Guy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient i=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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