Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 58
He is gone," answered the King, "and by your fault, for ye hindered me when I would have hanged him." "
Who acts: Naymes, ye, I, your · What happens: be, answer, hinder, hange, fault · To what, where: King, me, Naymes · 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 (Naymes, ye, I, your), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | cop |
| 3 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fault | cc |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 fault | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fault | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gone | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hindered | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 hindered | mark |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 hindered | nsubj |
| 18 | hindered | hinder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 hindered | obj |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 hanged | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 hanged | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 hanged | aux |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 hanged | aux |
| 24 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 hindered | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hanged | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Naymes | your fault conj; gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the King | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hinder | past | ye | me | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | hange | would · perfect | I | Naymes | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fault | your | nom fault «act 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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