Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 194
That were a foul disgrace," King Charles made answer; "never will I grant to a heathen either peace or life.
Who acts: That, Charles, I · What happens: be, make, not grant · To what, where: foul disgrace, answer, heathen · 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 (That, Charles, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 disgrace | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 disgrace | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 disgrace | det |
| 4 | foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 disgrace | amod |
| 5 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 disgrace | parataxis |
| 11 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 grant | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 grant | punct |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 grant | advmod |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 grant | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 grant | nsubj |
| 17 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 heathen | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 heathen | det |
| 20 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grant | obl |
| 21 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 22 peace | cc:preconj |
| 22 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heathen | appos |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 life | cc |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 peace | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 disgrace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | a foul disgrace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | Charles King | answer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product | ||||
| 3 | not grant | future | I | to a heathen goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to heathen=Goal |
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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