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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 21

Now, my brother," said Richard, "you speak as a man; if it come to fighting I will not fail of my duty."

Who acts: brother, you, pity, I · What happens: say, speak, come, fight, not fail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, you, pity, 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

advmodpunctnmod:possnsubjpunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctnsubjconjcasedetoblpunctmarknsubjparataxismarkadvclnsubjauxadvmodconjcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctrootNowADV,PUNCTmyPRONbrotherNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTsaidVERBRichardPROPN,PUNCT"PUNCTyouPRONspeakVERBasADPaDETmanNOUN;PUNCTifSCONJitPRONcomeVERBtoSCONJfightingVERBIPRONwillAUXnotPARTfailVERBofADPmyPRONdutyNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem7 saidadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Nowpunct
3mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 brothernmod:poss
4brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing7 saidnsubj
5,,PUNCT_4 brotherpunct
6""PUNCT_4 brotherpunct
7saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8RichardRichardPROPNNumber=Sing7 saidnsubj
9,,PUNCT_12 speakpunct
10""PUNCT_12 speakpunct
11youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs12 speaknsubj
12speakspeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 saidconj
13asasADP_15 mancase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 mandet
15manmanNOUNNumber=Sing12 speakobl
16;;PUNCT_19 comepunct
17ififSCONJ_19 comemark
18ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 comensubj
19comecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 saidparataxis
20totoSCONJ_21 fightingmark
21fightingfightVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 comeadvcl
22IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 failnsubj
23willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin25 failaux
24notnotPARTPolarity=Neg25 failadvmod
25failfailVERBVerbForm=Inf19 comeconj
26ofofADP_28 dutycase
27mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 dutynmod:poss
28dutydutyNOUNNumber=Sing25 failobl
29..PUNCT_7 saidpunct
30""PUNCT_7 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assert in a quotepastmy brothernowRichard nsubjvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2speak speech: otherpresentyouas a manvn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3come a condition, not said to happenpresentpityvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4fightgerundpity not said herevn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5not failfutureIof my dutyvn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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