Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 24
Said the Admiral, "Fair nephew, it seems to me that you have but little love for Christian men." "
Who acts: Admiral, it, you · What happens: say, seem, have · To what, where: Fair nephew, Admiral, little love · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Admiral, it, 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Admiral | det |
| 3 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 nephew | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 nephew | punct |
| 6 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nephew | amod |
| 7 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seems | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seems | nsubj |
| 10 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 seems | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seems | advcl |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 love | cc |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 love | amod |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 men | case |
| 20 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 men | amod |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 love | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seems | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 seems | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Admiral | Fair nephew | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | seem in a quote | present | it | the Admiral = admiral | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | you | little love | for Christian men | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=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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