Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 107

Then said Reyner, that was father to Oliver, "Sire, if you listen to these men you will do this realm of France such damage as may never be undone."

Who acts: Reyner, you · What happens: say, be, listen, do, not undo · To what, where: father, Oliver, realm · 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 (Reyner, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Reyner	Reyner	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 father	punct
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 father	det
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 father	cop
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Reyner	appos
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Oliver	case
9	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 father	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Sire	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Sire	punct
12	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Reyner	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 listen	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 listen	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 listen	nsubj
16	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 men	case
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 men	det
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 do	obl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 listen	ccomp
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 realm	det
24	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 do	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 damage	case
26	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 damage	compound
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 damage	amod
28	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 realm	nmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 undone	mark
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 undone	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 undone	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 undone	aux:pass
33	undone	undo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 do	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Reyner			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		that father	Oliver			tree rules
3	listen a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you					tree rules
4	do in a quote	future	you	this realm of France such damage			to this men	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent realm=Eventuality
5	not undo in a quote	may · passive	you not said here					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 107