Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 74
But Floripas said to them: "Now I see that the God whom you worship is of little power, seeing that he suffers you to remain in such straits.
Who acts: Floripas, Frenchmen, God, counsel · What happens: say, see, worship, be, suffer, remain · To what, where: Frenchmen, God, such straits · 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 (Floripas, Frenchmen, God, counsel), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 8 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 see | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 power | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 God | det |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 power | nsubj |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 worship | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 worship | nsubj |
| 16 | worship | worship | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 God | acl:relcl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 power | cop |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 power | case |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 power | amod |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seeing | punct |
| 22 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 see | advcl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 suffers | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 suffers | nsubj |
| 25 | suffers | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 seeing | ccomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 suffers | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 remain | mark |
| 28 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 suffers | xcomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 straits | case |
| 30 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 straits | amod |
| 31 | straits | strait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 remain | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Floripas | Frenchmen = frenchman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | Floripas | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | worship in a quote | present | Frenchmen = frenchman | the God | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the God | of little power | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | gerund | Floripas not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | suffer in a quote | present | counsel | Frenchmen = frenchman | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | remain in a quote | to-infinitive | counsel not said here | such straits | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in strait=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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