Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 36
The Duke said, "Blame me not, my friends, for ye saw how the man trifled with me."
Who acts: Duke, ye, man · What happens: say, not blame, see, trifle · To what, where: Duke · 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 (Duke, ye, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Duke | det |
| 2 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Blame | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Blame | punct |
| 6 | Blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Blame | obj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 Blame | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 friends | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friends | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Blame | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 saw | mark |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 trifled | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trifled | nsubj |
| 19 | trifled | trifle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 trifled | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Duke | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not blame in a quote | infinitive | the Duke = duke | my friends parataxis | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | ye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | trifle in a quote | participle | the man | with the Duke = duke | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with 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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