Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 32
If one had given me a thousand marks in gold," he said, "it had not pleased me so well as that Roland should meet the brethren and Mawgis and learn of what quality they are."
Who acts: Ogier, that · What happens: give, say, meet, learn, be · To what, where: one, me, gold, brethren · 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 (Ogier, that), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 given | mark |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 given | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thousand | det |
| 7 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 marks | nummod |
| 8 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 given | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pleased | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 pleased | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pleased | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 pleased | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 pleased | advmod |
| 20 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 pleased | nsubj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 well | advmod |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 pleased | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 meet | mark |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 meet | nsubj |
| 26 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 meet | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 meet | aux |
| 28 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 pleased | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 brethren | det |
| 30 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 meet | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Mawgis | cc |
| 32 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 brethren | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 learn | cc |
| 34 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 meet | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 what | case |
| 36 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 34 learn | obj |
| 37 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 are | dislocated |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 are | nsubj |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 what | cop |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | one | me | gold | thousand marks obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Ogier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | meet | should | that | the brethren and Mawgis | Roland nsubj | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brethren=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | learn | infinitive | that not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | 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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