Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 67
Nay," said the Admiral, "that will I not."
What happens: say · To what, where: Admiral · 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: 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Admiral | det |
| 6 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 will | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 not | nsubj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 will | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Admiral | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent admiral=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/26/67/