Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 5
That cannot I do," answered the Admiral, "seeing that this Charles has won my strong city of Mantryble."
Who acts: I, That, Charles · What happens: not do, answer, see, win · To what, where: Admiral, strong city
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 (I, That, Charles), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 That | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 That | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 That | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Admiral | det |
| 10 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seeing | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 seeing | punct |
| 13 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 answered | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 won | mark |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 Charles | det |
| 16 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 won | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 won | aux |
| 18 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 seeing | advcl |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 city | nmod:poss |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 city | amod |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 won | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Mantryble | case |
| 23 | Mantryble | Mantryble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 city | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 seeing | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 seeing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | can | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | That | the Admiral | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent admiral=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | That not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | win | present · perfect | this Charles | my strong city of Mantryble | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Eventuality |
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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