Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 94
Sir," answered Reynaud, "you shall not do so, God being my helper."
Who acts: Sir, you, God · What happens: answer, not do, be · To what, where: Reynaud, helper · 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 (Sir, you, God), 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 | Sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sir | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sir | punct |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 do | advmod |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 helper | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 God | punct |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 helper | nsubj |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 helper | cop |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 helper | nmod:poss |
| 17 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Sir | Reynaud | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do | shall | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | God | my helper | my nmod:poss | 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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