Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 55
But when Geoffrey was gone out from the Duke's presence, he said to himself, "This is a villainous deed that the Duke would have me to do, the slaying of his own nephew.
Who acts: Geoffrey, This, Duke, villainous deed · What happens: go out, say, be, have, do, slay · To what, where: Geoffrey, presence, villainous deed, own nephew · 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 (Geoffrey, This, Duke, villainous deed), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 gone | advmod |
| 3 | Geoffrey | Geoffrey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux:pass |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 gone | compound:prt |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 presence | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Duke | det |
| 9 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 presence | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Duke | case |
| 11 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 himself | case |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 deed | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 deed | punct |
| 19 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 deed | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 deed | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 deed | det |
| 22 | villainous | villainous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 deed | amod |
| 23 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 have | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Duke | det |
| 26 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 have | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | aux |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 deed | acl:relcl |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 have | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 do | mark |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 have | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 slaying | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 slaying | det |
| 34 | slaying | slaying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 deed | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 nephew | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 37 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 nephew | amod |
| 38 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 slaying | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past · passive | Geoffrey | the Duke's presence | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Geoffrey | Geoffrey | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | This | a villainous deed and the slaying of Geoffrey's own nephew | the slaying of Geoffrey's own nephew conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | would | the Duke | a villainous deed and the slaying of Geoffrey's own nephew | me obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | a villainous deed and the slaying of Geoffrey's own nephew not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | slay in a quote | Geoffrey's own nephew | nom slaying «act transitive»: of=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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