Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 80
Guy of Burgundy said, "Here is store of gold: did King Charles possess this, he could set up the churches that have been overthrown."
Who acts: Guy, Charles · What happens: say, be, do, possess, set up, overthrow · To what, where: store, Charles, churches · 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 (Guy, Charles), 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 | Guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Burgundy | case |
| 3 | Burgundy | Burgundy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Guy | nmod |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 store | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Here | punct |
| 7 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 store | advmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 store | cop |
| 9 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 store | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obj |
| 16 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Charles | acl:relcl |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 did | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 set | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 set | aux |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 set | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 churches | det |
| 24 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 set | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 overthrown | obj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 overthrown | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 overthrown | aux:pass |
| 28 | overthrown | overthrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 churches | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Guy of Burgundy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | store | here | of gold | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | Guy of Burgundy not said here | Charles King | this obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | possess in a quote | present | Charles King not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | set up in a quote | could | Guy | the churches | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient church=Result | ||||
| 6 | overthrow in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the churches | tree rules |
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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