Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 46
Floripas also saw this thing, and cried to the Knights, "Oh, my lords, will you suffer Guy that is your comrade to be thus shamefully done to death before your eyes?
Who acts: Floripas, Knights, Guy · What happens: see, cry, suffer, be, do · To what, where: thing, lords, Knights, Guy, comrade · 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 (Floripas, Knights, Guy), 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 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thing | det |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cried | cc |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Knights | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Knights | det |
| 11 | Knights | Knight | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 cried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lords | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 lords | punct |
| 14 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 17 lords | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Oh | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lords | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cried | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 suffer | punct |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 suffer | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 suffer | nsubj |
| 21 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | conj |
| 22 | Guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 suffer | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 comrade | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 comrade | cop |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 26 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Guy | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 done | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 done | aux:pass |
| 29 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 31 done | advmod |
| 30 | shamefully | shamefully | ADV | _ | 31 done | advmod |
| 31 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 suffer | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 death | case |
| 33 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 done | obl |
| 34 | before | before | ADP | _ | 36 eyes | case |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 done | obl |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Floripas | this thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Floripas not said here | my lords | the Knights | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to knight=Recipient | |||
| 3 | suffer in a quote | future | the Knights = knight | Guy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guy=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Guy | your comrade | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | do in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | the Knights = knight not said here | before your eyes | to death; shamefully, thus property | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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