Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 45
But when Reynaud heard it, he was full of anger, and said, "My lords, but that I love you, surely I had cut you to pieces for bringing so evil a message.
Who acts: Reynaud, I · What happens: hear, be, say, love, cut, bring · To what, where: Naymes, lords, you, evil message · 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 (Reynaud, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 3 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 full | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 full | cop |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 anger | case |
| 11 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 full | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lords | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 lords | punct |
| 17 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lords | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 cut | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 cut | cc |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 love | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 love | nsubj |
| 23 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 cut | advcl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 love | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 love | punct |
| 26 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 29 cut | advmod |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 cut | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 cut | aux |
| 29 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | parataxis |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 cut | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 pieces | case |
| 32 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 cut | obl |
| 33 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 bringing | mark |
| 34 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 cut | advcl |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 evil | advmod |
| 36 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 message | amod |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 message | det |
| 38 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bringing | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Reynaud | Naymes | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Reynaud | of anger; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | My lords | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | love in a quote | present | I | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | cut in a quote | past · perfect | I | you | to pieces result; surely property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient to piece=Result | |||
| 6 | bring in a quote | gerund | I not said here | a evil message | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
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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