Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 11
Lady," said the Duke, "we left the King because my brother Benes had slain the Prince Lothair, and we are afraid." "
Who acts: Lady, we, brother · What happens: say, leave, slay, be · To what, where: King, Lothair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady, we, brother), 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 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lady | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lady | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Duke | det |
| 6 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 left | nsubj |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 slain | mark |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slain | nsubj |
| 16 | Benes | Benes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brother | appos |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 slain | aux |
| 18 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 left | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Lothair | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Lothair | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Lothair | Lothair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 slain | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 afraid | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 afraid | cc |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 afraid | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 afraid | cop |
| 26 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 afraid | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 afraid | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Lady | the Duke nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | we | the King | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slay | past · perfect | my brother | the Lothair Prince | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lothair=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | we | afraid property | 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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