Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 12
For all that," answered the Duchess, "do you serve the King and obey him, for to do so becomes a true man."
Who acts: you · What happens: answer, serve, obey, do, become · To what, where: Duchess, King, true man · 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 (you), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 all | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 answered | obl |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 all | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Duchess | det |
| 8 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 serve | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 serve | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 serve | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 serve | nsubj |
| 13 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 serve | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 obey | cc |
| 17 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 serve | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 obey | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 do | case |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 serve | conj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 becomes | advmod |
| 24 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | ccomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 26 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 becomes | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the Duchess | for all that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | serve | present · do-support | you | the King | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | obey | present | you not said here | King | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | become | present | you not said here | a true man | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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