Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 50
And now seeing that I have humbled myself in vain let us two settle this matter.
Who acts: I, two · What happens: see, humble, let, settle · To what, where: myself, vain, us, matter
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 (I, two), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 seeing | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 seeing | advmod |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 humbled | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 humbled | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 humbled | aux |
| 7 | humbled | humble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 let | advcl |
| 8 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 humbled | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 vain | case |
| 10 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 humbled | obl |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 seeing | parataxis |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 settle | nsubj |
| 14 | settle | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 let | xcomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 matter | det |
| 16 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 settle | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | humble | present · perfect | I | myself | vain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | settle | present | two | this matter | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme matter=Location |
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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