Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 12
But the Duke Naymes, being both wise and true of heart, said to the King, "This is no good counsel of Amaury.
Who acts: Duke Naymes, This · What happens: be, say · To what, where: King, good counsel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke Naymes, This), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Naymes | det |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Naymes | compound |
| 4 | Naymes | Naymes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wise | punct |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 wise | cop |
| 7 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 8 wise | cc:preconj |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Naymes | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 true | cc |
| 10 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wise | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 true | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Naymes | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 King | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 counsel | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 counsel | punct |
| 20 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 counsel | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 counsel | cop |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 counsel | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 counsel | amod |
| 24 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 King | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Amaury | case |
| 26 | Amaury | Amaury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 counsel | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | wise property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | of heart | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Duke Naymes | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | This | no good counsel | of Amaury | tree rules |
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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