Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 41
Neither your wife nor any woman in the land of your birth shall boast that you have taken a penny's worth from King Charles!"
Who acts: wife, you · What happens: boast, take · To what, where: worth, Charles
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, 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 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 wife | det |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boast | nsubj |
| 4 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 woman | cc |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 birth | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 birth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 land | nmod |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 boast | aux |
| 14 | boast | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 taken | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 taken | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 taken | aux |
| 18 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 boast | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 penny | det |
| 20 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 worth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 penny | case |
| 22 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taken | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Charles | case |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 25 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 taken | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 boast | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 boast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boast speech: other | shall | your wife in the land of your birth nor any woman | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | present · perfect | you | a penny's worth | Charles King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent worth=Theme from charles=Initial_Location |
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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