Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 35

You say well," answered the King, "for indeed I cannot trust him to be elsewhere."

Who acts: You, I · What happens: say, answer, not trust, be · To what, where: King · 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 (You, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 say	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 trust	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 indeed	case
12	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 trust	obl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 trust	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 trust	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 trust	advmod
16	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 trust	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	20 elsewhere	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 elsewhere	cop
20	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	16 trust	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	You			well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	answer speech: assert in a quote	past	I not said here		the King		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
3	not trust	can	I	King			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme for indeed=Recipient
4	is	to-infinitive	I not said here			elsewhere property	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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 35