Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 113
For," said Charles, "any man that shall draw sword in this place shall be hanged as a thief, though he be of the highest estate."
Who acts: Charles, man · What happens: say, draw, hange, be · To what, where: sword, place, man · 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 (Charles, man), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 said | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 For | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hanged | advcl |
| 5 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 draw | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 draw | aux |
| 12 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 man | acl:relcl |
| 13 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 draw | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 draw | obl |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hanged | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hanged | aux:pass |
| 19 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 thief | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 thief | det |
| 22 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hanged | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 estate | punct |
| 24 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 30 estate | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 estate | nsubj |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 estate | cop |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 estate | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 estate | det |
| 29 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 estate | amod |
| 30 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hanged | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 hanged | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 hanged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Charles | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | draw | shall | any man | sword | this place | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 3 | hange | shall · passive | any man | as a thief | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | man | of the highest estate | 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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