Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 13
"Be content, fair lady," answered Roland, "this fellow shall be made to know of his misdoing ere he depart hence.
Who acts: you, Roland, fellow · What happens: be, answer, make, know, depart · To what, where: fellow, misdoing ere · 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 the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Roland, fellow), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 content | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 content | cop |
| 3 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lady | punct |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 content | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 content | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 content | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 content | conj |
| 10 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 fellow | det |
| 14 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | aux:pass |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 content | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 know | mark |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ere | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ere | nmod:poss |
| 22 | misdoing | misdoing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ere | compound |
| 23 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 depart | nsubj |
| 25 | depart | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 23 ere | acl:relcl |
| 26 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 25 depart | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | imperative | you not said here | fair lady conj; content property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Roland | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | shall · passive | this fellow | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | this fellow not said here | of Roland's misdoing ere | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of ere=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | depart in a quote | present | Roland | Roland's misdoing ere not said here | hence property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ere=Initial_Location |
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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