Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 8
So be it," answered the Duke.
What happens: be, answer · To what, where: more, Duke
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 it | advmod |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 it | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 it | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Duke | det |
| 8 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | more | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the Duke | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent duke=Eventuality |
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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