Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 77
Meanwhile the Provost had come to the Duke, and said to him, "Sir, this is but ill counsel that you are pulling down your own castle.
Who acts: Provost, this, ill counsel · What happens: come, say, be, pull down · To what, where: Provost, ill counsel, own castle · 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 (Provost, this, ill counsel), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Provost | det |
| 3 | Provost | Provost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Duke | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Duke | det |
| 8 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sir | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sir | punct |
| 16 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 counsel | punct |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 counsel | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 counsel | cop |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 counsel | cc |
| 21 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 counsel | amod |
| 22 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Sir | appos |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 pulling | nsubj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 pulling | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 pulling | aux |
| 26 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 counsel | acl |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 pulling | compound:prt |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 castle | nmod:poss |
| 29 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 castle | amod |
| 30 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pulling | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | the Provost | to the Duke; meanwhile property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to duke=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Provost not said here | Provost | Sir ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this | ill counsel | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pull down in a quote | present · progressive | ill counsel | your own castle | you nsubj | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme |
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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