Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 7

"Sir," said Lucifer, "this was not well done of you, to trust these prisoners to a woman, for women are apt to change, and to turn from one thing to another.

Who acts: Sir, women · What happens: say, not do, trust, be, change, turn · To what, where: this, prisoners, woman, one thing · 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 (Sir, women), 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	_	2 Sir	punct
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sir	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sir	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Lucifer	Lucifer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 done	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 done	punct
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 done	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 done	aux:pass
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 done	advmod
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 done	advmod
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 done	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 trust	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 trust	mark
18	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
19	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 prisoners	det
20	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 trust	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 woman	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 woman	det
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trust	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 apt	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 apt	mark
26	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 apt	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 apt	cop
28	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 trust	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 change	mark
30	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 apt	csubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 turn	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 turn	cc
33	to	to	PART	_	34 turn	mark
34	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 change	conj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 thing	case
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 thing	nummod
37	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 turn	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 another	case
39	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	37 thing	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sir				Lucifer nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not do in a quote	past · passive		this			of you; well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	trust in a quote	to-infinitive		this prisoners	a woman			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent prisoner=Theme to woman=Recipient
4	is in a quote	present	women				apt property	tree rules
5	change in a quote	to-infinitive						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	turn in a quote	to-infinitive				one thing to another		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from thing=Trajectory

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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 7