Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 130
The Duke Naymes answered, "Nay, we will not put him to death.
Who acts: Duke Naymes, we · What happens: answer, not put · To what, where: Naymes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke Naymes, we), 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 | 3 Naymes | det |
| 2 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Naymes | compound |
| 3 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 7 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 12 put | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Nay | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 put | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 put | advmod |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Duke Naymes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not put in a quote | future | we | Naymes | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
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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