Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 70

And Roland said, "Sire, take it not ill, if I tell you that for your pride you will cause the Duke Richard to die.

Who acts: Roland, Sire, pride, your · What happens: say, take, tell, cause, die, pride · To what, where: more, you, Duke Richard · 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 (Roland, Sire, pride, your), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Sire	punct
6	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Sire	punct
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	obj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 ill	advmod
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 take	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 tell	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
15	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 take	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 you	nmod:unmarked
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 cause	mark
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pride	nmod:poss
20	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cause	nsubj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 cause	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 cause	aux
23	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tell	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Richard	det
25	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Richard	compound
26	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 cause	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 die	mark
28	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 cause	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Roland				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	infinitive	Sire	more			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Roland		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	cause in a quote	future	your pride	the Duke Richard		you nsubj	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition richard=Patient
5	die in a quote	to-infinitive	your pride not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	pride in a quote		your				nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 70