Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 88
Certainly it were treachery," said the King again; "but do as you will, only mark that I do not consent thereto."
Who acts: Sire, treachery, I · What happens: be, say, do, not consent · To what, where: treachery, mark · 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 (Sire, treachery, I), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 treachery | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 treachery | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 treachery | cop |
| 4 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 treachery | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 treachery | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 but | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 do | cc |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 will | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 will | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mark | punct |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 mark | advmod |
| 20 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 consent | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 consent | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 consent | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 consent | advmod |
| 25 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 mark | acl:relcl |
| 26 | thereto | thereto | ADV | _ | 25 consent | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 mark | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 mark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sire | treachery | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | treachery | again | the King nsubj; mark parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | do | present | treachery not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not consent | present · do-support | I | mark | thereto 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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