Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 42
But Clarion answered, "I would not do this, no not for half the treasure of the world."
Who acts: Clarion · What happens: answer, not do, treasure · To what, where: this, world · 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 (Clarion), 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 | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | Clarion | Clarion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 treasure | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 treasure | det |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 treasure | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 treasure | case |
| 15 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 17 treasure | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 treasure | det |
| 17 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 treasure | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Clarion | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | would | Clarion | this | for no treasure of the world | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | treasure in a quote | the world | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=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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