Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 23
Know that I am a Christian woman, though I have not talked with a Christian these seven years.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: know, be, not talk · To what, where: Christian woman
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 woman | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 woman | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 woman | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Know | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 talked | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 talked | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 talked | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 talked | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 talked | advmod |
| 13 | talked | talk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Know | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 years | det |
| 16 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 years | amod |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 years | det |
| 18 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 talked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | a Christian woman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not talk | present · perfect | I | year | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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