Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 98
If he have done aught amiss against you I will be his surety, and will answer for him that he shall make amends."
Who acts: Duke, I · What happens: do, be, answer, make · To what, where: aught, surety, amends
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 (Duke, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 done | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 answer | advcl |
| 5 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | amiss | amiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 done | xcomp |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 amiss | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 surety | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 surety | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 surety | cop |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 surety | nmod:poss |
| 13 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 answer | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 answer | cc |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 answer | aux |
| 17 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 answer | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 make | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 make | aux |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 answer | advcl |
| 24 | amends | amend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 make | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 answer | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | Duke | aught | amiss property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aught=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is a | future | I | Duke's surety | Duke nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | future | for Duke | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | shall | Duke | amends | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amend=Product |
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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