Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 43
His father had but a single town, and now he holds himself so high that he disdains to be the King's man.
Who acts: father, Earl · What happens: have, hold, disdain, be · To what, where: Earl, man
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 (father, Earl), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 town | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 6 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 town | amod |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 holds | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 holds | cc |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 holds | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 holds | nsubj |
| 12 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 holds | obj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 high | advmod |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 holds | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 disdains | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 disdains | nsubj |
| 18 | disdains | disdain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 high | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 man | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 man | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 man | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 King | case |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disdains | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Earl's father | a single town conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold | present | Earl | Earl | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | disdain | present | Earl | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | Earl not said here | the King's man | the King nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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