Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 29

So he would not listen to Sir Simon; no, nor yet to his wife the Duchess, though she was urgent with him to speak peaceably to the King's messengers.

Who acts: Duke, wife · What happens: not listen, be, speak · To what, where: Sir, messengers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Duke, wife), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 listen	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 listen	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 listen	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 listen	advmod
5	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Sir	case
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 listen	obl
8	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Sir	flat
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 listen	punct
10	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 listen	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wife	punct
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	16 wife	cc
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	16 wife	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 wife	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 listen	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Duchess	det
18	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wife	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 urgent	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 urgent	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 urgent	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 urgent	cop
23	urgent	urgent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 listen	parataxis
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 urgent	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 speak	mark
27	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 urgent	advcl
28	peaceably	peaceably	ADV	_	33 messengers	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	33 messengers	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 King	det
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 messengers	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 King	case
33	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 speak	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not listen	would	Duke		Sir	to Duke's wife	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sir=Theme
2	is	past	wife			with Duke; urgent property	tree rules
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	wife not said here	the King's messengers			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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 29