Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 32
Friends," said the Admiral, "advise me what I shall do with this prisoner who sets me at nought most shamefully."
Who acts: Friends, I, prisoner · What happens: say, advise, do, set · To what, where: Admiral, me, nought · 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 (Friends, I, prisoner), 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 | Friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Friends | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Friends | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Admiral | det |
| 6 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 advise | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 advise | punct |
| 9 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 advise | obj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 do | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 advise | ccomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 prisoner | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 prisoner | det |
| 17 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obl |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 sets | nsubj |
| 19 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 prisoner | acl:relcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 sets | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 nought | case |
| 22 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 19 sets | obl |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 shamefully | advmod |
| 24 | shamefully | shamefully | ADV | _ | 19 sets | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 advise | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 advise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Friends | the Admiral | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | advise speech: other | infinitive | me | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | shall | I | with this prisoner; what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | set | present | this prisoner | me | nought | shamefully property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme at nought=Destination |
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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