Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 5
King Marsilas also bids me say that he is not to be blamed because he does not send the Vizier.
Who acts: King · What happens: bid, say, not be, not send · To what, where: me, King, Vizier · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bids | nsubj |
| 2 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 bids | advmod |
| 4 | bids | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bids | obj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bids | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 blamed | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 blamed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 blamed | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 blamed | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 blamed | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 blamed | aux:pass |
| 13 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 say | ccomp |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 send | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 send | nsubj |
| 16 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 send | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 send | advmod |
| 18 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 blamed | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Vizier | det |
| 20 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 send | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bids | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | present | King | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is | present · passive | King | blame property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not send | present · do-support | King | the Vizier | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizier=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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