Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 186
Tis a wrong even to ask us," said they; "cursed be he who shall not strike with his whole heart!"
Who acts: son, Tis · What happens: ask, say, curse, be, not strike · To what, where: us, Tis · 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 (son, Tis), 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 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wrong | det |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 ask | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ask | mark |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | parataxis |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ask | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | parataxis |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 cursed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 cursed | punct |
| 14 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wrong | conj |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 he | cop |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 strike | nsubj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 strike | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 strike | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 strike | advmod |
| 20 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cursed | ccomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 heart | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 heart | amod |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strike | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | us | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | curse | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | Tis | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not strike | shall | Tis | with Tis's whole heart; who nsubj | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heart=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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