Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 35
This is foolishness," said the Duke; "what will their prayers profit you if you lose your head?" "
Who acts: foolishness, you, Huon · What happens: be, say, profit, lose, pray · To what, where: foolishness, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foolishness, you, Huon), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 foolishness | det |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 foolishness | cop |
| 3 | foolishness | foolishness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 foolishness | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 foolishness | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Duke | det |
| 8 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 profit | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 profit | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 profit | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 profit | aux |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 profit | compound |
| 15 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 lose | nsubj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 lose | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 lose | nsubj |
| 19 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 profit | acl:relcl |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lose | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 lose | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lose | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 profit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this foolishness | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | this foolishness | the Duke nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | profit | future | what nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lose a condition, not said to happen | present | you | your head | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | pray | Huon | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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