Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 4
Nevertheless Sortibrant reproved him, and bade him repent of such injurious deeds. "
Who acts: Sortibrant · What happens: reprove, repent · To what, where: Nor, bade
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sortibrant), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 3 reproved | advmod |
| 2 | Sortibrant | Sortibrant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reproved | nsubj |
| 3 | reproved | reprove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reproved | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 repent | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 repent | cc |
| 7 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 repent | obl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bade | obj |
| 9 | repent | repent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reproved | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 deeds | case |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deeds | amod |
| 12 | injurious | injurious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deeds | amod |
| 13 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 repent | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reproved | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 reproved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reprove | past | Sortibrant | Nor | nevertheless property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | repent | present | Sortibrant not said here | bade Nor | of such injurious deeds | 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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