Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 68
I promise you that if any man come hereafter with such a message from the King, I will smite off his head."
Who acts: I, man · What happens: promise, come, smite off · To what, where: you, head
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 (I, man), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 promise | nsubj |
| 2 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 promise | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promise | advcl |
| 9 | hereafter | hereafter | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 message | case |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 message | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 message | det |
| 13 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 King | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 message | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 smite | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 smite | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 smite | aux |
| 20 | smite | smite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promise | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 smite | compound:prt |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 smite | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promise | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present | I | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | any man | with such message from the King; hereafter property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | smite off | future | I | man's head | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus head=Experiencer |
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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