Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 59
Nay," said the Duke Bron, "we shall fare ill if we do this.
Who acts: Duke Bron, we · What happens: say, fare, do · To what, where: this · 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 (Duke Bron, we), 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | 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 | 7 Bron | det |
| 6 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bron | compound |
| 7 | Bron | Bron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fare | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 fare | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 fare | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fare | aux |
| 12 | fare | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fare | xcomp |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fare | advcl |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Duke Bron | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fare | shall | we | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | we | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
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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