Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 52
Villain of a god!" they cried, "why dost thou put us to such shame?
Who acts: Villain, thou · What happens: cry, do, put · To what, where: us
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 (Villain, thou), 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 | Villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 god | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 god | det |
| 4 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Villain | nmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 god | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 god | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 dost | punct |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 dost | advmod |
| 12 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 put | nsubj |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dost | ccomp |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 put | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 shame | case |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shame | amod |
| 18 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Villain of a god | servants = servant nsubj | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Villain of a god not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put | past | thou | us | to such shame | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent we=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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