Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 54
Pardon me that I struck you; it was not done of set purpose." "
Who acts: you, I · What happens: pardon, strike, not do · To what, where: me, you, blood
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 (you, I), 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 | Pardon | pardon | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Pardon | obj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 struck | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 struck | nsubj |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pardon | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 struck | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 done | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux:pass |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 done | advmod |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Pardon | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 purpose | case |
| 13 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 purpose | amod |
| 14 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pardon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon | imperative | you not said here | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | I | you | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | not do | past · passive | blood | of set purpose | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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