Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 97
When the Admiral saw this he was out of his wits with anger, and when Sortibrant told him that this was of his daughter's doing, he vowed that she should die an evil death.
Who acts: Admiral, this, Sortibrant, daughter, anger · What happens: see, be, tell, do, vow, die · To what, where: wits, Admiral, evil death · 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 (Admiral, this, Sortibrant, daughter), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Admiral | det |
| 3 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 wits | nsubj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wits | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wits | cop |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 wits | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wits | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wits | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 anger | case |
| 13 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wits | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 told | advmod |
| 17 | Sortibrant | Sortibrant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 told | nsubj |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | iobj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 daughter | mark |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 daughter | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 daughter | cop |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 daughter | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | ccomp |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 daughter | case |
| 27 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 daughter | acl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 vowed | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 vowed | nsubj |
| 30 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 doing | parataxis |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 die | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 die | nsubj |
| 33 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 die | aux |
| 34 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 vowed | ccomp |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 death | det |
| 36 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 death | amod |
| 37 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 die | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Admiral | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | this | Admiral's wits | with anger; Admiral nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Sortibrant | Admiral | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | this | of Admiral's daughter; Admiral nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | gerund | Admiral's daughter not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | vow | past | Sortibrant | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | die | should | anger | a evil death | 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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