Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 39
You speak well," answered Lothair, "nevertheless if the Duke shall say anything that shall displease us, he shall be sorry therefor."
Who acts: You, Duke · What happens: speak, answer, say, displease, be · To what, where: Lothair, anything, us, sorry therefor · 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 (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 speak | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 speak | conj |
| 7 | Lothair | Lothair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nevertheless | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 nevertheless | punct |
| 10 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 6 answered | conj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 say | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Duke | det |
| 13 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 say | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 therefor | advcl |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 say | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 displease | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 displease | aux |
| 19 | displease | displease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 anything | acl:relcl |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 displease | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 therefor | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 therefor | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 therefor | cop |
| 25 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 therefor | amod |
| 26 | therefor | therefor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nevertheless | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | You | well property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | You not said here | Lothair | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lothair=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | shall | the Duke | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 4 | displease | shall | us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | shall | Duke | sorry therefor | 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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