Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 74
Nay," said Balan, "that will I never do, and you are a fool, my son, to ask such a thing.
Who acts: Balan, that, you, thing · What happens: say, not do, be, ask · To what, where: fool · 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 (Balan, that, you, thing), 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 | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Balan | Balan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Balan | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Balan | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 do | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 do | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fool | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fool | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 fool | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fool | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fool | det |
| 18 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 son | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fool | vocative |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ask | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 ask | mark |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 25 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 thing | det:predet |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 thing | det |
| 27 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ask | obj |
| 28 | . | . | 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 | Balan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not do | future | that | I nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | you | a fool | my son vocative | tree rules | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | such thing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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