Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 4
The Duke Naymes said, "This, Sir Richard, is but foolishly spoken.
Who acts: Duke Naymes · What happens: say, speak · To what, where: Sir Richard · 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 (Duke Naymes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Naymes | det |
| 2 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Naymes | compound |
| 3 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Richard | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Richard | punct |
| 7 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 Richard | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Richard | punct |
| 9 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Richard | compound |
| 10 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Richard | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 spoken | aux:pass |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 spoken | cc |
| 14 | foolishly | foolishly | ADV | _ | 15 spoken | advmod |
| 15 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Duke Naymes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | present · passive | Sir Richard This | foolishly property | 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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