Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 71
Friends," said he, "an evil fate has overtaken you in this world; may the God of glory receive you in the world to come!"
Who acts: Friends, God · What happens: say, overtake, receive, come · To what, where: friend, world, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Friends, God), 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 | Friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Friends | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Friends | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 overtaken | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 overtaken | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 overtaken | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fate | det |
| 9 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fate | amod |
| 10 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overtaken | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 overtaken | aux |
| 12 | overtaken | overtake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 overtaken | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overtaken | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 receive | punct |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 receive | aux |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 God | det |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 receive | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 glory | case |
| 22 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 God | nmod |
| 23 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 receive | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 receive | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 come | mark |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 receive | advcl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Friends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | overtake | present · perfect · passive | friend | this world | a evil fate nsubj:pass; you obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | receive | may | the God of glory | you | the world | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme in world=Location | |||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | the God of glory not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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