Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 30
Speak to me, therefore, no longer on this matter, but do you bear the Oriflamme of France as becomes a noble knight." "
Who acts: you · What happens: speak, bear, become · To what, where: me, Oriflamme, noble knight · 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 (you), 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 | Speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Speak | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Speak | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 longer | punct |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Speak | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 matter | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 matter | det |
| 11 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 longer | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bear | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 bear | cc |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 bear | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 bear | nsubj |
| 16 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Speak | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Oriflamme | det |
| 18 | Oriflamme | Oriflamme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bear | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 France | case |
| 20 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Oriflamme | nmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 becomes | mark |
| 22 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 bear | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 knight | det |
| 24 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 knight | amod |
| 25 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 becomes | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | me | long, therefore property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | bear | present · do-support | you | the Oriflamme of France | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oriflamme=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | present | you not said here | a noble knight | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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