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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 68

Then he said to him that was their chief and spokesman, a certain Sir Stephen, "Surely, Sir Stephen, your Duke had lost his wits when he slew my dear son Lothair.

Who acts: King, that, Duke · What happens: say, be, lose, slay · To what, where: man, chief, wits, dear son 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 (King, that, Duke), 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

advmodnsubjcaseoblnsubjcopnmod:possccompccconjpunctdetamodnmod:descappospunctpunctadvmodpunctnmod:descconjpunctnmod:possnsubjauxacl:relclnmod:possobjadvmodnsubjadvclnmod:possamodcompoundobjpunctrootThenADVhePRONsaidVERBtoADPhimPRONthatPRONwasAUXtheirPRONchiefNOUNandCCONJspokesmanNOUN,PUNCTaDETcertainADJSirPROPNStephenPROPN,PUNCT"PUNCTSurelyADV,PUNCTSirPROPNStephenPROPN,PUNCTyourPRONDukePROPNhadAUXlostVERBhisPRONwitsNOUNwhenADVhePRONslewVERBmyPRONdearADJsonNOUNLothairNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 saidadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 saidnsubj
3saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4totoADP_5 himcase
5himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 saidobl
6thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem9 chiefnsubj
7wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 chiefcop
8theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 chiefnmod:poss
9chiefchiefNOUNNumber=Sing3 saidccomp
10andandCCONJ_11 spokesmancc
11spokesmanspokesmanNOUNNumber=Sing9 chiefconj
12,,PUNCT_16 Stephenpunct
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 Stephendet
14certaincertainADJDegree=Pos16 Stephenamod
15SirSirPROPNNumber=Sing16 Stephennmod:desc
16StephenStephenPROPNNumber=Sing9 chiefappos
17,,PUNCT_22 Stephenpunct
18""PUNCT_22 Stephenpunct
19SurelysurelyADV_22 Stephenadvmod
20,,PUNCT_19 Surelypunct
21SirSirPROPNNumber=Sing22 Stephennmod:desc
22StephenStephenPROPNNumber=Sing9 chiefconj
23,,PUNCT_27 lostpunct
24youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 lostnmod:poss
25DukeDukePROPNNumber=Sing27 lostnsubj
26hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 lostaux
27lostloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part22 Stephenacl:relcl
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 witsnmod:poss
29witswitNOUNNumber=Plur27 lostobj
30whenwhenADVPronType=Int32 slewadvmod
31hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 slewnsubj
32slewslayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 lostadvcl
33mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 Lothairnmod:poss
34deardearADJDegree=Pos36 Lothairamod
35sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing36 Lothaircompound
36LothairlothairNOUNNumber=Sing32 slewobj
37..PUNCT_3 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastKingmanthenvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2is apastthatothers's chief and spokesman and Stephen Sirothers = other nmod:poss; spokesman conj; a certain Stephen Sir appos; Stephen Sir conjtree rules
3lose in a quotepast · perfectDukeKing's witsyour nmod:possvn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Eventuality
4slay in a quotepastKingmy dear son Lothairvn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lothair=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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