Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 65
When the Admiral was brought to Charles, the King said, "Will you forsake your false gods, who indeed have profited you nothing, and accept the true faith?
Who acts: King, you · What happens: bring, say, forsake, profit, accept · To what, where: Admiral, Charles, false gods, true faith · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, you), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 brought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Admiral | det |
| 3 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 accept | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Charles | case |
| 7 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Charles | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forsake | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 forsake | punct |
| 14 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 forsake | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 forsake | nsubj |
| 16 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 gods | nmod:poss |
| 18 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gods | amod |
| 19 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 profited | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 profited | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 profited | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 24 profited | advmod |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 profited | aux |
| 24 | profited | profit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 forsake | ccomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 profited | obj |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 profited | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 accept | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 accept | cc |
| 29 | accept | accept | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 faith | det |
| 31 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 faith | amod |
| 32 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 accept | obj |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 accept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | the Admiral | Charles | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to charles=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | forsake in a quote | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | profit in a quote | present · perfect · passive | your false gods | who nsubj:pass; you obj; nothing obj; indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | accept in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the true faith | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Theme |
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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