Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 57
Aloys said, "You are but a fool, seeing that you will not take your revenge when you may."
Who acts: Aloys, You, your · What happens: say, be, see, not take, revenge · To what, where: fool, revenge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aloys, You, 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 | Aloys | Aloys | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fool | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fool | punct |
| 5 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 fool | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fool | cop |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 fool | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fool | det |
| 9 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seeing | punct |
| 11 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 said | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 take | advmod |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seeing | ccomp |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 revenge | nmod:poss |
| 18 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 may | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 may | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Aloys | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | You | a fool | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | gerund | Aloys not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not take in a quote | future | you | your revenge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme | ||||
| 5 | revenge in a quote | your | nom revenge «act 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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