Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 77
He was an evil man and a treacherous, but that day he spoke as a loyal vassal of the King. "
Who acts: next · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: evil man · 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 (next), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 man | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 treacherous | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 treacherous | det |
| 8 | treacherous | treacherous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spoke | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 spoke | cc |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoke | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spoke | nsubj |
| 14 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 vassal | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 vassal | det |
| 17 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 vassal | amod |
| 18 | vassal | vassal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoke | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 King | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 vassal | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | next | a evil man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | next not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | next | a evil man not said here | day | as a loyal vassal of the King | tree rules |
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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