Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 8
But the King answered, "Not so, we will first try them, whether they will yield up the place peaceably."
Who acts: King, we, barons · What happens: answer, try, yield up · To what, where: barons, place · 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 (King, we, barons), 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 | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 try | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 so | punct |
| 7 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 so | advmod |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 try | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 try | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 try | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 try | aux |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 try | advmod |
| 13 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 try | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 yield | punct |
| 16 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 19 yield | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 yield | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 yield | aux |
| 19 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 try | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 yield | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 yield | obj |
| 23 | peaceably | peaceably | ADV | _ | 19 yield | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try in a quote | future | we | barons = baron | first property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | yield up in a quote | future | barons = baron | the place | peaceably property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent place=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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