Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 15
We dealt with them so that they will not boast themselves of this day's work.
Who acts: We, men, day · What happens: deal, not boast, work · To what, where: men
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, men, day), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 dealt | nsubj |
| 2 | dealt | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dealt | obl |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 boast | mark |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 so | fixed |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 boast | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 boast | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 boast | advmod |
| 10 | boast | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dealt | advcl |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 boast | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 work | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 work | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 day | case |
| 16 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boast | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dealt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deal | past | We | with men = man | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not boast speech: other | future | men = man | men = man | of this day's work | tree rules | |||
| 3 | work | this day | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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