Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 105
But the King said, "What shall my crown profit me, if I do this base thing, and leave these my knights to perish without help!
Who acts: King · What happens: say, profit, do, leave, perish · To what, where: King, base thing, these · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 profit | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 profit | punct |
| 7 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 profit | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 profit | aux |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 profit | nmod:poss |
| 10 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 profit | compound |
| 11 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 profit | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 thing | det |
| 18 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thing | compound |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leave | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 leave | cc |
| 22 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 23 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 leave | obj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 knights | nmod:poss |
| 25 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 leave | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 perish | mark |
| 27 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 leave | advcl |
| 28 | without | without | ADP | _ | 29 help | case |
| 29 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 perish | obl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | profit in a quote | shall | the King = king | What nsubj; my nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the King = king | this base thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | infinitive | these | my knights obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme knight=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | perish in a quote | to-infinitive | without help | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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