Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 27
King John," he said, "would have betrayed me, but he did it for fear of King Charles.
Who acts: John · What happens: say, betray, do, fear · To what, where: me, story, Charles · 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 (John), 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 John | nmod:desc |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 John | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 John | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 betrayed | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 betrayed | punct |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 betrayed | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 betrayed | aux |
| 11 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 betrayed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 did | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 did | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 did | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 fear | case |
| 19 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 did | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Charles | case |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 fear | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | John King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | betray | would · perfect | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | past | John | story | for fear of Charles King | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | fear | Charles King | nom fear «feeling 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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