Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 134
Aymon said, "I cannot abide in the house with these men, for that were against my oath to King Charles.
Who acts: Aymon, that · What happens: say, not abide, be · To what, where: house, Charles · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aymon, that), 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 | Aymon | Aymon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 abide | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 abide | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 abide | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 abide | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 abide | advmod |
| 8 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 abide | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 men | det |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 abide | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 oath | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 oath | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 oath | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 oath | cop |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 oath | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 oath | nmod:poss |
| 21 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 abide | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Charles | case |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 24 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 oath | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Aymon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not abide in a quote | can | Aymon | the house | with this men | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | that | Charles King | for my oath; my nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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