Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 100
The King answered, "I will prove my accusation against you by force of arms."
Who acts: King, my · What happens: answer, prove, accuse · To what, where: accusation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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 (King, my), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 prove | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 prove | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 prove | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 prove | aux |
| 8 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 accusation | nmod:poss |
| 10 | accusation | accusation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prove | obj |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 prove | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 force | case |
| 14 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prove | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 arms | case |
| 16 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 force | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 prove | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 prove | 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 | prove in a quote | future | the King = king | my accusation | against you; by force of arms | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accusation=Theme | |||
| 3 | accuse in a quote | my | nom accusation «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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