Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 1
King Charles said to his knights and barons, "See now how this villain Reynaud has deceived me, and carried away my crown.
Who acts: Charles, my · What happens: say, see, deceive, carry away, crown · To what, where: knights, villain, crown · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charles, my), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 knights | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 knights | nmod:poss |
| 6 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 barons | cc |
| 8 | barons | baron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 knights | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 See | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 See | punct |
| 11 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 See | advmod |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 deceived | advmod |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 villain | det |
| 15 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deceived | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 villain | appos |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 deceived | aux |
| 18 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 See | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 deceived | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carried | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carried | cc |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 carried | advmod |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 crown | nmod:poss |
| 25 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Charles King | Charles's knights and barons | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to knight=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | Charles King not said here | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | deceive in a quote | present · perfect · passive | this villain | me obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry away in a quote | past | Charles King not said here | my crown | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | |||
| 5 | crown in a quote | my | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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