Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 46
The Duke was not a little wroth; nevertheless he dissembled his anger, and said, "Tell me now your name and your kindred, and of what country you are."
Who acts: Duke, your · What happens: not be, dissemble, say, tell, anger, name · To what, where: anger, name, Duke · 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 (Duke, your), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Duke | det |
| 2 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wroth | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wroth | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wroth | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wroth | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 dissembled | punct |
| 9 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 11 dissembled | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dissembled | nsubj |
| 11 | dissembled | dissemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wroth | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 anger | nmod:poss |
| 13 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dissembled | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dissembled | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Tell | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Tell | punct |
| 19 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 Tell | iobj |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 name | advmod |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 name | nmod:poss |
| 23 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Tell | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 kindred | cc |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 kindred | nmod:poss |
| 26 | kindred | kindred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 name | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 what | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 what | cc |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 what | case |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 wroth | parataxis |
| 31 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 what | nsubj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 are | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 country | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wroth | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wroth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the Duke | a little obl:unmarked; what country parataxis; wroth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dissemble | past | Duke | Duke's anger | nevertheless property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Duke not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | your name | Duke | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient name=Topic | ||||
| 5 | anger | Duke | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | name in a quote | your | nom name «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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