Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 96
See, I pray you, that they come to no harm."
Who acts: you, I, children · What happens: see, pray, come · To what, where: you, harm
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. 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, children), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pray | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pray | nsubj |
| 4 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | conj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 pray | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 harm | case |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 harm | det |
| 12 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | pray | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | present | children = child | no harm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial_Location |
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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