Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 111
Berenger answered, "You love me little, my lord King, if you make such a demand of me.
Who acts: Berenger, You · What happens: answer, love, make, demand · To what, where: Berenger, demand, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Berenger, You), 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 | Berenger | Berenger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 love | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 love | punct |
| 5 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 love | nsubj |
| 6 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 love | obj |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 love | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lord | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lord | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 love | obl |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lord | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 make | nsubj |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 love | parataxis |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 demand | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 demand | det |
| 19 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 demand | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Berenger | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | love in a quote | present | You | Berenger | my lord obl | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | such demand of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demand=Product | ||||
| 4 | demand in a quote | me | nom demand «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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