Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 97
That is foolishness," said Oberon; "and mark this: if you blow the horn when you are on any of such adventures, I will not heed it, no, not though you should even break the horn in the blowing of it." "
Who acts: foolishness, you, I · What happens: be, say, mark, blow, not heed, not break · To what, where: foolishness, this, horn, blowing · 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, I), 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 | That | that | 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 | Oberon | Oberon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mark | cc |
| 11 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 mark | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 blow | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 blow | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 blow | nsubj |
| 16 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 horn | det |
| 18 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blow | obj |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 any | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 any | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 any | cop |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 any | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 blow | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 adventures | case |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 adventures | amod |
| 26 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 any | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 heed | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 heed | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 heed | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 heed | advmod |
| 31 | heed | heed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 blow | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 heed | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 break | punct |
| 34 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 41 break | discourse |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 break | punct |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 break | advmod |
| 37 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 41 break | mark |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 break | nsubj |
| 39 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 break | aux |
| 40 | even | even | ADV | _ | 41 break | advmod |
| 41 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 blow | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 horn | det |
| 43 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 break | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 blowing | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 blowing | det |
| 46 | blowing | blowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 break | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 it | case |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 blowing | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 blow | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 blow | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that foolishness | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | that foolishness | Oberon nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mark | infinitive | that foolishness not said here | this | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Destination | ||||
| 4 | blow a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the horn | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent horn=Beneficiary any=Product | ||||
| 5 | not heed | future | I | horn | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not break | should | you | the horn | the blowing of blowing | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horn=Patient | |||
| 7 | blow | blowing | nom blowing «process 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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