Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 39
I have never offended you or taken your treasure.
Who acts: your · What happens: not offend, take, treasure · To what, where: I, treasure
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 (your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 offended | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 offended | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 offended | advmod |
| 4 | offended | offend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 offended | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 taken | cc |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 offended | conj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 9 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 offended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not offend | present · perfect · passive | I | you obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer you=Result | ||||
| 2 | take | participle | your treasure | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||||
| 3 | treasure | your | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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