Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 45
Some one has betrayed him; 'tis he, I doubt not, that would deceive you now.
Who acts: one, Roland, tis · What happens: betray, not doubt, deceive · To what, where: Roland, tis, you
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 (one, Roland, tis), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 betrayed | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 betrayed | aux |
| 4 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 betrayed | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 deceive | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 tis | punct |
| 8 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deceive | nsubj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 doubt | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 doubt | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 doubt | nsubj |
| 12 | doubt | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 8 tis | acl:relcl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 doubt | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 deceive | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 deceive | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 deceive | aux |
| 17 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 betrayed | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 deceive | obj |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 deceive | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 betrayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betray | present · perfect | some one | Roland | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not doubt | present | Roland | tis not said here | I nsubj | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tis=Theme | |||
| 3 | deceive | would | tis | you | now | that nsubj | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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