Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 77
I fear me much," he said to his lords, "lest some evil have befallen my son, for this Duke Benes is a savage man and a cruel."
Who acts: I, Paris, evil, this · What happens: fear, say, befall, be · To what, where: me, son, savage man · 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 (I, Paris, evil, this), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 fear | nsubj |
| 2 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 fear | obj |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 fear | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fear | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 fear | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 lords | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lords | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 befallen | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 befallen | punct |
| 14 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 18 befallen | mark |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 evil | det |
| 16 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 befallen | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 befallen | aux |
| 18 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | conj |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 befallen | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 man | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 man | mark |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 man | nsubj |
| 24 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Benes | compound |
| 25 | Benes | Benes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 man | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 man | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 man | det |
| 28 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 man | amod |
| 29 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 befallen | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 cruel | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 cruel | det |
| 32 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 man | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | I | me | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Paris | to Paris's lords | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to lord=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | befall | present · perfect | some evil | my son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | this | a savage man | Duke Benes nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | be | this not said here | 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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