Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 23
Your enemies will mock you, saying that you durst not do this man to death in daylight for fear of them."
Who acts: enemies, you · What happens: mock, say, not do, fear · To what, where: you, man, daylight, enemies · 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 (enemies, 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 2 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mock | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 mock | aux |
| 4 | mock | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mock | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 mock | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 10 | durst | durst | ADV | _ | 12 do | advmod |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 do | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 saying | ccomp |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 death | case |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 daylight | case |
| 18 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 fear | case |
| 20 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fear | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mock | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mock | future | Your enemies | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Your enemies not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not do | infinitive | you | this man | daylight | to death; for fear of enemies; durst property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | ||
| 4 | fear | enemies = enemy | 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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