Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 85
That were treachery," answered the King, "for we have given our word to him.
Who acts: treachery, we, our · What happens: be, answer, give, word · To what, where: treachery, King, word · 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 (treachery, we, our), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 treachery | det |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 treachery | cop |
| 3 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 treachery | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 treachery | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 given | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 given | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 given | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 given | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 answered | parataxis |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 word | nmod:poss |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 given | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that treachery | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | that treachery | the King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | present · perfect | we | our word | King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | word | our | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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