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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 speak | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 speak | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 speak | nsubj |
| 12 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 speak | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 21 fighting | mark |
| 21 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 come | advcl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 fail | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 fail | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 fail | advmod |
| 25 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 duty | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 duty | nmod:poss |
| 28 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fail | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | my brother | now | Richard nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | you | as a man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | pity | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fight | gerund | pity not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not fail | future | I | of my duty | vn 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/12/21/