Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 85
This done, he dubbed him knight, saying, "God increase thee in goodness, honour, and worthiness!"
Who acts: King · What happens: do, dub, say · To what, where: This, Ogier, God increase, goodness · 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 (King), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dubbed | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dubbed | nsubj |
| 5 | dubbed | dub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dubbed | obj |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dubbed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 dubbed | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 increase | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 increase | punct |
| 12 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 increase | compound |
| 13 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saying | obj |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 increase | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 goodness | case |
| 16 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 increase | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 honour | punct |
| 18 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 increase | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 worthiness | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 worthiness | cc |
| 21 | worthiness | worthiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dubbed | parataxis |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 worthiness | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 worthiness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | dub | past | King | Ogier | knight obj; worthiness parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | King not said here | God increase thee and honour | goodness | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent increase=Theme in goodness=Manner |
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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