Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 26
Him," said he, "you have slain, but be assured that you will pay right dearly for his death."
Who acts: thing, you · What happens: say, have, assure, pay, die · To what, where: slain · 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 (thing, you), 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 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | ccomp |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Him | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Him | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 assured | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 assured | cc |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 assured | aux:pass |
| 14 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 pay | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 pay | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 pay | aux |
| 18 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 assured | ccomp |
| 19 | right | right | ADV | _ | 20 dearly | advmod |
| 20 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 18 pay | advmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 death | nmod:poss |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pay | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | you | slain | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slain=Patient | ||||
| 3 | assure | infinitive · passive | thing not said here | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pay | future | you | for thing's death; dearly property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for death=Theme | ||||
| 5 | die | thing | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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