Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 20
As they went they uttered many threatenings against the Duke, if he should not submit himself to the King.
Who acts: knights, Duke · What happens: go, utter, not submit · To what, where: many threatenings, Duke, King
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, Duke), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 uttered | nsubj |
| 5 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | ccomp |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 threatenings | amod |
| 7 | threatenings | threatening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 uttered | obj |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 Duke | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Duke | det |
| 10 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 threatenings | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 submit | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 submit | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 submit | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 submit | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 submit | advmod |
| 16 | submit | submit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 uttered | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 submit | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 King | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 submit | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | knights = knight | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | knights = knight | many threatenings | against the Duke | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent threatening=Topic | |||
| 3 | not submit a condition, not said to happen | should | Duke | Duke | the King | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to king=Recipient |
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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