Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 111
God grant it be so!" said the Duke Naymes.
Who acts: God, Duke Naymes · What happens: grant, be, say · To what, where: ground · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, Duke Naymes), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grant | nsubj |
| 2 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grant | obj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 so | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 grant | advmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 grant | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 grant | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Naymes | det |
| 10 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Naymes | compound |
| 11 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | infinitive | God | ground | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | so property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Duke Naymes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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