Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 13
And Oliver answered again, "When I gave you this counsel, you scorned it.
Who acts: Oliver, you · What happens: answer, give, scorn · To what, where: counsel, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 answered | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 7 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 gave | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 counsel | det |
| 12 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 scorned | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 scorned | nsubj |
| 15 | scorned | scorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gave | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 scorned | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Oliver | again | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | Oliver | this counsel | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient counsel=Theme | |||
| 3 | scorn in a quote | past | you | counsel | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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