Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 18
And because what we said was not to his liking, he has made us prisoners.
Who acts: we, truth · What happens: say, not be, make · To what, where: prisoners, 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 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 (we, truth), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 what | cc |
| 2 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 what | case |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 liking | nsubj |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 liking | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 liking | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 liking | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 liking | nmod:poss |
| 10 | liking | liking | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 liking | acl:relcl |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 liking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | we | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | to truth's liking; what nsubj; truth nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | present · perfect | truth | prisoners | us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset we=Beneficiary prisoner=Product |
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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