Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 63
But the King, moved by certain of his counsellors, would promise no such thing.
Who acts: King · What happens: move, promise · To what, where: King, such thing
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 (King), 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 | _ | 13 promise | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 promise | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 King | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 certain | case |
| 7 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moved | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 counsellors | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 counsellors | nmod:poss |
| 10 | counsellors | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 certain | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 promise | aux |
| 13 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 thing | det |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thing | amod |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 promise | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | participle | the King not said here | by certain of King's counsellors | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by certain=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | would | the King | no such thing | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thing=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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