Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 85
He said, therefore, to Huon, "Sir, I doubt whether you are even now in such a strait that you should blow the horn.
Who acts: Provost, you · What happens: say, doubt, be, blow · To what, where: strait · 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, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 therefore | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Huon | punct |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Huon | case |
| 7 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sir | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sir | punct |
| 10 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Huon | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 doubt | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 doubt | nsubj |
| 13 | doubt | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 14 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 22 strait | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 strait | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 strait | cop |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 now | advmod |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 strait | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 strait | case |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 strait | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 strait | det |
| 22 | strait | strait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 doubt | ccomp |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 blow | obj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 blow | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 blow | aux |
| 26 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 strait | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 horn | det |
| 28 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 blow | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Provost | Huon parataxis; therefore property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | doubt in a quote | present | Provost | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | such strait | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | blow in a quote | should | you | such strait | the horn obj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary horn=Product |
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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