Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 119
But Ogier answered, "You have blamed me for treachery, and my own friends say the same thing.
Who acts: Ogier, own friends · What happens: answer, blame, say · To what, where: You, same thing · 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 (Ogier, own friends), 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 | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | Ogier | Ogier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 blamed | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 blamed | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 blamed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 blamed | aux |
| 8 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 blamed | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 treachery | case |
| 11 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blamed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 say | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 say | cc |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friends | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 friends | amod |
| 16 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 say | nsubj |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thing | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thing | amod |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Ogier | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | blame in a quote | present · perfect · passive | You | for treachery; me obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | my own friends | the same thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
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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